Basics of Electrical units and quantities

Sat, 01 May 2010 17:26:00 +0200

I’m sick and tired of stories in the general boating press by confused writers that mix up electrical numbers and quantities.

This is probably because electrical units are a bit different than the units used for length, speed and distance.

Are Eco Ethernet switches Greener?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:23:00 +0100

There was a recent discussion on Panbo where some people proposed that Ethernet, and more specifically using the IP protocol with a 100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T physical layer. I am still sceptical of that for several reasons. One of them is that an IP stack rules out using small micro controllers, or requires extra hardware. This drives up the cost of the minimal hardware node. A zigbee or bluetooth based system is much more low-end friendly and has the added benefit of needing no wires.

Power Usage on Merrimac

Basics of Electrical units and quantities

Are Eco Ethernet switches Greener?