Today I learned +

[Aeson]

TIL that it would take 4,200,000 lemons to power a 2015 Honda Civic

Where did you find that many lemons and how long did it take to squeeze the juice into the tank?

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

I learned that I forgot to discharge the capacitor I was testing.

 

[Ryujin]

I learned that I forgot to discharge the capacitor I was testing.

I'm just glad that no one needs to learn that you have to discharge CRT monitors anymore. I used to have a sacrificial giant flathead screwdriver for the purpose and it looked sort of like it had repeatedly been hit by lightning.

 

[dragoner]

Yeah, saw someone short an $800 module to ground. Nice one

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

I'm just glad that no one needs to learn that you have to discharge CRT monitors anymore. I used to have a sacrificial giant flathead screwdriver for the purpose and it looked sort of like it had repeatedly been hit by lightning.

 

[trappedslider]

Where did you find that many lemons and how long did it take to squeeze the juice into the tank?

A 2015 Honda Civic starter requires 12V and 150A. A lemon cell outputs 0.9V and 0.0005A. Gold wiring lowers circuit resistance but the lemons are pretty poor batteries, they also have such high resistance that copper Vs gold won't make a difference.

Series lemons for 12V: 14. Parallel groups for 150A: 300,000. Total lemons required: 4,200,000.

 

[Ryujin]

A 2015 Honda Civic starter requires 12V and 150A. A lemon cell outputs 0.9V and 0.0005A. Gold wiring lowers circuit resistance but the lemons are pretty poor batteries, they also have such high resistance that copper Vs gold won't make a difference.

Series lemons for 12V: 14. Parallel groups for 150A: 300,000. Total lemons required: 4,200,000.

The Professor from "Gilligan's Island" wants to know how many coconuts?

 

[Aeson]

TIL Karl Urban was on Xena: Warrior Princess. Looks like he played a couple of different characters. In this episode he's Julius Caesar. I didn't recognize his face right away. It was his voice.

 

[Aeson]

The Professor from "Gilligan's Island" wants to know how many coconuts?

Get in line. I'm still waiting for him to answer my question.

 

[Staffan]

TIL Karl Urban was on Xena: Warrior Princess. Looks like he played a couple of different characters. In this episode he's Julius Caesar. I didn't recognize his face right away. It was his voice.
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He also played Cupid, who's another recurring character and who's very different from Julius Caesar (I think there's one episode where he plays both). That's the thing that made me appreciate his acting skills.