My rear tires are all in inches, 32x16r15...Kinda like tires. Section width in mm, sidewall height as a percentage of that, and rim diameter in inches.
Why Fahrenheit?
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Cheater! Those aren't street-legal.My rear tires are all in inches, 32x16r15...
That's my small set. The et streets on my Nova are 33x17r16Cheater! Those aren't street-legal.
I'm here as a Canadian who actually like many aspects of the imperial units used. I find them much more ergonomic than many metric units. The worst are for force an pressure where a newton and Pa are so small they are literally imposssible to quantify in a real sense without considering large magnitudes of each. On the flip side a pound force and psi are large enough that can think of them in real world terms. Mathimatically metric is way better but there is more to the world than math.
As for Farenheit vs Celsius there is no comparison. Farenheit just set up a poor scale. 100 was what he thought people's body temperature was and 0 was supposedly the coldest it could ever get. He was wrong obviously.
Speaking of units I still don't get why some TC mods use joules for units. Doesn't really make sense to me or understand how they regulate the energy output when the puff duration can be very different from puff to puff.
As for Farenheit vs Celsius there is no comparison. Farenheit just set up a poor scale. 100 was what he thought people's body temperature was and 0 was supposedly the coldest it could ever get. He was wrong obviously.
Speaking of units I still don't get why some TC mods use joules for units. Doesn't really make sense to me or understand how they regulate the energy output when the puff duration can be very different from puff to puff.
Anyone objecting to choice here should remember that there are those that would like to make a certain choice for us about vaping... that none of us would like, regardless of which temp scale we prefer.
Going back to high school science but isn't it F = 9/5 C + 32 or C = 5/9 (F - 32)
Because where I was living if the U.S. switched to Celsius I'd be confused and probably die.
They'd tell me it's going to be 49°c today, and I'd walk out in my parka and long johns and die of heat exhaustion because I learned things such as this on the Fahrenheit scale which is what all of our country learned. Even my stupid computer gives me temps in Celsius which I then need to go and convert to see if it's running too hot or not.
Thanks, I'll keep my Temperatures in Fahrenheit, my measurements in inches and feet and my liquids in gallons, it just makes sense (since it's what we were taught)
They'd tell me it's going to be 49°c today, and I'd walk out in my parka and long johns and die of heat exhaustion because I learned things such as this on the Fahrenheit scale which is what all of our country learned. Even my stupid computer gives me temps in Celsius which I then need to go and convert to see if it's running too hot or not.
Thanks, I'll keep my Temperatures in Fahrenheit, my measurements in inches and feet and my liquids in gallons, it just makes sense (since it's what we were taught)
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Yes, but I can't do that in my head when one of the ladies asks me what the weather is like. For normal temperatures relating to weather, F = (C x 2) + 30. Reverse for C to F.
Oh god, don't get me started. In third grade my school announced that they were no longer going to teach the imperial system, and go all metric (yes this was in the USA). Being that young we couldn't care less about it because we really didn't know better. So all through grade school we were all happy using meters, liters, Celsius, etc. (actually we used Fahrenheit quite a bit also).
The schools even enlisted parents to try to use the metric system as much as possible at home. Some parents balked, but most went along with it.
Then my family moved to another state. OMFG I was so screwed as with how many teaspoons In tablespoon, or pints, quarts, gallons, inches, feet, yards, miles. It drove me nuts, but eventually I got used to it (except I still hate inches, feet, yards, miles with a passion).
I just bought a mill and a lathe. Stupid me I didn't pay attention that it was in imperial, so now I have to get the calculator out to convert back and forth. But I think I'll just break down and buy the metric conversion kit.
The schools even enlisted parents to try to use the metric system as much as possible at home. Some parents balked, but most went along with it.
Then my family moved to another state. OMFG I was so screwed as with how many teaspoons In tablespoon, or pints, quarts, gallons, inches, feet, yards, miles. It drove me nuts, but eventually I got used to it (except I still hate inches, feet, yards, miles with a passion).
I just bought a mill and a lathe. Stupid me I didn't pay attention that it was in imperial, so now I have to get the calculator out to convert back and forth. But I think I'll just break down and buy the metric conversion kit.
That was the party line. But my understanding is that the real reason the US never went metric is the machining costs. Every nut and bolt, every hole in every USA made part would have to be re-engineered to a slightly different metric size. Every 1/4-20 threaded hole changed to a 6mm and so on. Everything, even the thing that the thread was cut into. Everything made to imperial would need to be rebuilt with new plans, molds and tooling. The cost would have been enormous. And there would still have to be a spare parts industry for everything that was made the past few decades to imperial measure, and nuts and bolts and other generic replacement parts pretty much forever, and etc.
It was seriously talked about. For about a week. Until all the engineers brought up that minor issue
However, it might get rethought now since the only remaining thing manufactured in all of the USA now is the Provari and we know how the PTB feel about vaping and vape gear manufacturers.
So ... I just swapped the sx350j into Centigrade. I'm vaping Ti anyway so it's not like the numbers mean anything anyway. They are all just numbers.
If it is 80F out and I subtract 30 and divide by 2 I get 25 C. 25 multiplied by 2 + 30 =80
Using the impossible formula, 80F =26.6 C. My way is close enough for conversation... 26.6C is 79.8F
But at vaping temperatures (100C) it starts to go into danger territory. That's the only reason I brought it up. 420F (temp of burning cotton) can be really problematic.
That's way beyond temp as it relates to weather, which is what I was talking about. TC for mods is a feature I would find useless...
Paper ignites at around 450F. I can't imagine cotton ignites at 420F...
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Insanely accurate TC. Might be a little bit before we get those though.
Also, Cotton will self-ignite at roughly 400 degrees C (~752 F).
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