Magtrometer? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: JoeO
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2019, 01:28:33 am
content: Recently Louis Rossmann and Jessa Jones testified in regards to a bill regarding the "Right to Repair".A stupid lobbyist talked about a "Magtrometer" in a microwave.She is probably getting big money for being this dumb!

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2019, 03:26:20 am
content: I think she's been exposed to too many microwaves from amagnetron.Either that or a microwave was dropped on her head.

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2019, 07:00:54 am
content: I don't know what a Magtrometer is, but it sounds like an awesome name for a robot villain in a cheesy sci-fi movie.

author: thinkfat
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 03, 2019, 07:45:16 am
content: The only important word in the whole speech was anyway "could explode"! I bet she's been instructed to drop that phrase, no matter what.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2019, 04:55:21 am
content: Quote from: thinkfat on November 03, 2019, 07:45:16 amEven though microwave ovens are deliberately designed to short the mains out if so much as the door switch fails. She has absolutely no idea and was just literally frantically rambling.I love the woman in the back biting her fingers trying to stifle a laugh.

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2019, 05:29:54 am
content: I think this was a recording of a past (non-recent) Right To Repair related lobbyist.I do not envy those senators. Sitting for hours listening to all sorts of lobbyists that sounding like they need to filibuster. I don't blame ministers for being so crap now

author: thinkfat
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 04, 2019, 08:33:04 am
content: Quote from: Cyberdragon on November 04, 2019, 04:55:21 amThat's Jessa Jones, she runs an independent Apple repair shop called "IpadRehab". She's a small Internet celebrity in her own field. You might find her videos on microsoldering interesting, she did a couple of them together with the iFixit guys.

author: thinkfat
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 04, 2019, 08:34:43 am
content: Quote from: Whales on November 04, 2019, 05:29:54 amI think it was a quite recent hearing in Boston, MA.

author: terrypen
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 08, 2019, 02:16:35 pm
content: Quote from: thinkfat on November 04, 2019, 08:34:43 amActually the portion above was recorded March 9th, 2017. Yes, Louis and Jessa, just attended and spoke at a right to repair hearing in Boston, MA. But the clip that the OP posted was from 2017. Here's Louis' version of it.She starts jabbering at around 13:30https://youtu.be/rUFAyxbOFic?t=810

author: zarcondeegrissom
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 30, 2022, 05:02:17 pm
content: in fairness, I can assure you that it is incredibly unlikely a normal pocket compass would 'explode' under normal use, and even under extraordinary circumstances (The C4 is the dangerous part of that equation, not the normal pocket compass it's strapped to), I doubt you could get a pocket compass to disintegrate in a dangerous way, even if you lob it at a planet at a significant fraction of light speed, it would be cheaper to just use rouge Kyper belt space rocks instead for such uses (they also have more mass, lol)we can ignore the fear-mongering of the anti-right-to-repair lobbyists trying to scare people away from using a pocket compass. That's why the 'magtrometer' on the pioneer craft was on a longer boom than the RTGs, had nothing to do with getting the magnetic field sensor away from the spacecraft's electronics so it could measure the magnetic field of the planets it was flying past, lol.P.S. I think one New York bill was edited to allow "assemblies of parts" for more e-waste, such a sarcastically 'great' thing I guess. an "assemblies of parts" can be argued to be the entire power supply, monitor, or entire PC, lap-top, tablet, or phone.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2022, 06:48:59 pm
content: damn that sounds dumb, they never heard of a fuse before?shit can spark in a box and blow a fuse. That's what is going to happen even if you just wire in a giant copper brick inside of the microwave.They should do some independent testing to prove these allegations of explosions and brimestone/fire.It's kind of amusing that their scaring the court with 'explosions'.That kind of talk of explosions only makes sense if you have equipment that belongs here in mind. The power company can make electricity explode. Maybe this bill would be useful to prevent like a gated community from rolling DIY pole transformers. You have a main breaker, a individual breaker and a fuse, at the minimum.****I also want to know how that woman got into the classified brief about the new space force deep scan array that actually uses a megtrometer, which can in fact explode.BTW I think the microwave oven is the wrong place to hold a fight, because its usually a cheap piece of crap. You can fix it, but try getting it clean, you can never get those things clean.. How about those 4000$+ refrigerators and ovens? that's what really kicks you in the balls. Or home furnaces. How great are those furnace repair men too? 500$ to fix nothing and not find a problem.The furnace is down right extortion, they know they can gouge you because try living without heat for a few days. Putins men.Home heating going down is like a warp core failure when you are in the intergalactic void and you got nothing but a ferengi freighter near by.500$ to have him look at it for 45 min and say change a filter (clearly the cause of a leak) when 2 hours later you decide to get dirty and find a shot gasket and reassemble it in 1 hour after you get the part. Scandalous. They need to make sure home owners are involved, not like Manhattan central heating law students living on the 50th floor (stop using space aliens). I know why that person does not know the proper word for magtrollmeter, its because she has a wall in microwave that has clauses for it in the lease and she considers changing apartments when a cupboard door has gotten loose... its very typical thinking for some people, i.e. troll the land lord into buying you new stuff because of extremely superficial flaws. You are a professional! you can't be seen talking to a handy man.. .christ what would people in the office think???