Is this online watering hole a public forum for all ... or a fiefdom ... for just a few?
I completed my electrical apprenticeship in 1976 while working as a contractor within the Westlands Group. (Now AgustaWestland). Obviously, now 60, I can't claim to have kept up with those regs but, yes, I have a rudimentary knowledge of electrical engineering and electronics.
You boast of your decades teaching so that, reasonably, allows me to boast a little also!
Aside from a career in Construction, (and Local Government), I've been International Inventor of the Year and International Engineering Inventor of the Year
and won international awards and accolades for design ... and altruism!
Maybe that is why I find the
"expert's within this forum", (your words), so intransigent in the manner and fashion they,
sometimes, deliver their views. I mean; A little flair, charm and humanity accompanying their literary musings might knock the sharp edges off their, often, automated technical contributions.
The
experts you highlight, are members on a niche interest, cycle based, website, not candidates for the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
And how many more times would you like me to write, (and repeat), how grateful and appreciative I have been for members suggestions, ideas and theories presented here?
As I have said, (above), I don't intend to revisit the subject but if ungracious is a demeanor parallel with uncompromising, forthright, frank, plain speaking, candid or direct then, sure, I'll accept your particular interpretation.
Thanks for the expansive and comprehensive explanation of points I had asked to be explained or clarified. I very much appreciate the time you took to, clearly, lay out the material you presented here. Thank you.
I shall now,
graciously, remove myself from this post because, having read some very unfortunate remarks elsewhere on this site, I am keen to avoid being drawn into the sort of bitter online confrontation I have witnessed
contributors of this very thread getting themselves involved in.
For those of you who enjoy any excuse to vent your spleen, please feel free to scold or chastise me further ... (for merely stating that I didn't appreciate one minor comment from one contributor here) ...
Be my guest ... but don't expect me to respond.
That would just encourage you further!