Boy being colorblind sucks for this hobby!!

[searoad]

i bought some 10 and 100 ohm which i thought they were 10k and 100k....

anybody knows how to use 10 ohm resistors

[ulysses]

sort of unrelated story but ill tell it anyway...

i am a computer tech by trade. i got called to a job to figure out why when traffic moved faster than 10mbps there were excessive collisions on the network.

after several days of all the text book things to check i decided we had to check the wiring of the entire building.

we had to so check each patch one by one.

the solution:

a couourblind person had wired the orange (which looked red on this particular cable) and brown wires in the cat5 cable round the wrong way at a desktop jack.

man that was frustrating.

cheers
ulysses

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

i bought some 10 and 100 ohm which i thought they were 10k and 100k....
anybody knows how to use 10 ohm resistors

I can't help with the 10 ohm, but the 100 ohm is good for a power line decoupling resistor!

[Mark Hammer]

I have this %^&*eyed theory that when something becomes socially prevalent enough, it stops being a "disorder" and starts being simply an unrealistic societal expectation.

Most kids have excellent attention.  Fixing one's attention in the midst of all the various sources of distraction for the lengths of time expected is a difficult enough task that many kids can't do it.  Somewhere near 1/4 get labelled "attention disordered".  How a species could survive with 1/4 of them being "disordered" is beyond me.  Once something starts happening to more than 1 in 10, it ceases being a disorder in my books, and starts to become part of the range of normalcy, but challenged by completely unrealistic expectations.  A bit like making the front doorstep 18 inches off the ground, and suddenly declaring that we have an epidemic of height disorder.

My vision is pretty decent.  What I cannot do is read 6pt fonts in bad light.  Is that a vision problem?  I doubt it.  Just unrealistic expectations.

The colour-code on components is one of those things that makes sense in some ways, but also allows the industry to simply go well beyond the normal limits of perfectly acceptable human vision.  I'm sure that under those industrial things with the big magnifying lens in the middle and the bright round fluoresent fixture, the colour code seems like a screaming neon sign, and ridiculously tiny printing that is barely there looks like 3-inch high "War Is Over!!" headlines.  For "regular folks" working at their hobby benches, that stuff will make a great many of us feel legally blind.  It's not our "problem" though.  Rather it is a mismatch between normal human capabilities under typical non-industrial circumstances, and expectations under industrial circumstances.