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Acama wrote:
I got home and ran the diagnnostic tests as per your instructions.
Unfortunalty there were no fault codes present when I viewed the Wash
Progress Leads binary code.I went on to test the valves and switches and all seemed to be fine on this
front also.Any other tips or suggestions?
Thanks once again for taking the time to help out.
Regards
AnthonyGood old Queen Bess the 2nd is having her/a/the birthday here this weekend.
Tis the weekend where we let of fireworks although you need a demolition permit from the OFT just to buy the fireworks
Unlike NZ where we celebrated Guy Fawkes on the 4th November with fireworks
Could be something in that, Demolition, Guy Fawkes, Parliament, Queen Bess.
Spot (Acronym of post) you all on tuesday.
Ahhhh!!!! 4 weeks annual leave, 12 days public holidays, 4 weeks sick leave, sand, sun, surf: when is a guy (not Fawkes) ever supposed to get any work done around here
THE LEMON and THE LITTLE OLD MAN AT SIBSON
The bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they offered a $1000 bet: The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to an engineer. Anyone who could squeeze one more drop of juice out would win the money.
Many engineers had tried but nobody could do it.
Then this scrawny little man came in, wearing thick glasses and a polyester suit, and said in a tiny, squeaky voice, “I’d like to try the bet.”
After the laughter had died down, the bartender agreed, grabbed a lemon, and squeezed away. Then he handed the dried, wrinkled remains of the rind to the little man.
But the engineers laughter turned to total silence as the man clenched his fist around the lemon and SIX drops fell into the glass.
As the engineers cheered, the bartender paid the $1000, and asked the little man, “What do you do for a living? Are you a Appliance repairer, Corgi, Merloni or what?”
The man replied, “I work for the G.B.Dar.”Have sent you the fault code desciption indicating and out of balance switch fault which is also featured in the additional diagnostic pages etc that I’ve attached.
There is no physical or electrical, magnetic, or other reason you cannot place one electrical device (in this case a microwave oven) ontop of another electrical device (in this case a fridge/freezer) other than as Kwatt inferred which is the falling danger
Every electrical device is type tested to the highest electrical, magnetic and frequency emission standards and as long as each appliance haven’t been damaged, altered or are of an age where these standards are likely to have been compromised then go ahead.
For your own peace of mind obtain an ohm and a volt meter or a multi meter and test between the appliance frames first that there is no voltage difference when plugged in and operating and then that the ohms between are less than 5 ohms.
In summary it is no different than placing each individual device in contact with a stainless steel bench
Supply and Demand
Understanding the laws of supply and demand are central to understanding how the capitalist economy operates. Since we rely on market forces instead of government forces to distribute goods and services there must be some method for determining who gets the products that are produced. This is where supply and demand come in. By themselves the laws of supply and demand give us basic information, but when combined together the are the key to distribution in the market economy… price.
What is demand?
Demand is comprised of three things.
Desire
Ability to pay
Willingness to pay
It is not enough to merely want or desire an item. One must show the ability to pay and then the willingness to pay. If all three conditions are not me then the demand is not real. This, by the way, is the purpose of advertising. While many may want a product it is quite another to be willing to pay. Advertising attempts to move a consumer from mere want to action. These day even condition two may not stand in the way of a consumer. With the advent of credit cards we are able to purchase products without the current ability to pay. Many stores and car dealers even offer on the spot credit though the interest rate may be quite high.What factors alter your desire, willingness and ability to pay for products? Some factors include consumer income, consumer tastes the prices of related products like substitutes for that product of items that may complement that product.
Marginal utility – extra satisfaction a consumer gets by purchasing one more unit of a product.
Diminishing Marginal Utility: The more units one buys the less eager one is to buy more. Think of diminishing marginal utility this way. It is a hot summer day and your sweating bullets. You come across a lemonade stand and gulp down a glass. It tasted great so you want another. This second glass is marginal utility. But now you reach for a third glass. Suddenly your stomach is bloated and your feeling sick. That’s diminishing marginal utility! (or you can only sell one fridge freezer)
There are two types of changes in demand:
Changes in demand – change in the demand for a product that occurs when price drops.
Changes in the Quantity Demanded – change in the amount of a product demanded regardless of price.
The difference is subtle but important. If the demand of ice cream goes up in the summer it is because consumers demand has truly increased, clearly it is hot. In the case the business can most likely raise prices without suffering a drop in sales. This is a change in quantity demanded. If sales of ice cream were to increase in January as a result of a price cut, however, the information we would be receiving is that the demand was artificially manipulated. It really tells us that actual demand is low and that extra efforts had to be made to increase sales. This is change in demand.
When there is a change in amount purchased (tied to demand) due to lower prices and surplus spending money it is called the income effect. Income effect basically happens when salaries are on the rise.
Another economic phenomenon tied to demand is Substitution Effect. This states that as prices drop consumers will buy more than usual at the expense of a different product. Take a sale at the mall for example. If jeans are on sale for a great price consumers will by extra jeans even if they had previously planned to buy something else. This is that great deal you just cannot pass up. What would the opportunity cost be? That item you passed up and substituted for.
The Law of Demand:
quantity demanded in inversely proportional to price.
Simply put, the higher the price, the lower the demand and the lower the price, the higher the demand.
In numbers it would look like so:
Demand Schedule for CookiesAt a price of
Consumer will buy.70 cents
100 cookies.60
200.50
400.40
700.30
1,100.20
1,600.10
2,300On Topic I hope.
Its seems from reading some of the forums that doom and gloom is always forecast.
However, in the end the consumer always has to pay for any costs.
There will always be consumers.
Likewise there will always be the rich and the poor
(If we were all rich then we would all be poor)To attempt to absorb any costs is ludicrous.
A margin must be put on all costs for both administration and profit.
Increased administartion means more workers means more consumers.It all equalizes in the end.
Also it is said (by whom I don’t remember, possibly me) that the opposition doesn’t win an election, those in power lose the election
This is because those in power think they have “cart blanche” to impose whatever policies they like, however in the end the voter fires a warning.
Democracy:
The term democracy indicates a form of government where all the state’s decisions are exercised directly or indirectly by a majority of its citizenry through a fair elective process.The law of supply and demand:
The basic insight underlying the law of supply and demand is that at any given moment a price that is “too high” will leave disappointed would-be sellers with unsold goods, while a price that is “too low” will leave disappointed would-be buyers without the goods they wish to buy. There exists a “right” price, at which all those who wish to buy can find sellers willing to sell and all those who wish to sell can find buyers willing to buy. This “right” price is therefore often called the “market-clearing price.”http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Econom … Demand.htm
I concentrate not on servicing appliances as that is not my core business
Appliance have no method of paying me
No! my core business is servicing consumers
In fact one could say my core business is to make a profit
In other words, stir up the politicians, charge the consumers, play around with supply and demand, always concentrate on making a profit.
An over simplification however space doesn’t permit me to continue
Put the technical trainers on hold and concentrate on a Business Manager
Maybe this would help
Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker’s computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word “the” with the phrase “you suck!” They will usually panic and start scanning for viruses.
Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc. before they realize what has happened.
Another gem is to do a “Print Screen” of the user’s desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the ‘snapshot’ of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You’ll have to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it…sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!
This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in their floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.
Try to find a very obnoxious CD laying around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM. Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio CD will auto-play when windows first starts up. The person starting up their PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.
This is for that special person you just cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to automatically “blind carbon copy” their boss or supervisor. Heads will roll!
Change the coffee in the office coffee maker to decafe. Wait about three weeks (or until you think everybody has gotten over their caffeine addiction)and switch to espresso!
Try “password securing” someone’s screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to “scrolling marque” and inserting your own word or phrase, “Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT” or something to that effect.
Pop out the ‘m’ and ‘n’ key on someone’s keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.
With someone who is on the phone a lot during work – This works if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpiece inside. They can still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The next day take it off, and put it in the earpiece. Usually they will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day, and won’t be able to hear them. When they complain about the phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.
And finally…
Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because of the selection “fish head stew” etc. before he caught on. Works great with picky eaters.
