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Dick Smith’s Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)

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Re: Dick Smith’s Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)

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> Even though I can show countless examples of people within 200km causing their, and their family’s demise Can you expand on this ? Do you mean their deaths, or some sort of economic suffering?

Dozens of people in Australia die every year from their own 12 or 230V wiring I actually find 12V worse. People then try to run mains equipment off it with high amperage and correspondingly high heat, causing fire and…

This makes zero sense:?

If you hook a 240V appliance to 12V DC it will draw negligible current.

Perhaps you are trying to talk about people using a 12V to 240V inverter to run AC equipment in a car or off-grid, but not using large enough batteries. What-ever, the end result will be a flat battery or blown fuse, so little damage will be done. No worse than any other 12V wiring in a car.

Re: Dick Smith’s Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)

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How did that compare to the current Jaycar/Altronics/etc offerings? I imagine a sleeping zombie

I have fond memories of Dick Smith. My dad bought my first soldering iron, along with some soldering projects (I remember the FM Wireless Microphone from here https://ia801002.us.archive.org/3/items/dicksmithsfunwayinto... ). You could tell the people creating the kits were really keen to share their love of electronics. You could buy loose components out of trays, and it seemed like they had a bunch more unusual ada…

The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate. https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...
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