What is E-Hydro?

[kuboman]

Re: What si E-Hydro?

Laughable. :laughing: With that kind of logic anything that is mechanical will fail sooner or later too, give me a break.

Laugh all you want. Every time you add a layer of complication you increase the failure rate.

 

[Riverrat]

Do any of y'all still use rotary phones. Ha. Just joking.

 

[MBDiagMan]

I realize it was a joke, but even in the boonies where I live and they have to tighten the string between the tin cans, a rotary phone won't work any more. It's all tone now.

 

[jenkinsph]

I realize it was a joke, but even in the boonies where I live and they have to tighten the string between the tin cans, a rotary phone won't work any more. It's all tone now.

^^^^^:laughing:


I think they have gone high tech in the boonies and now use SpiderWire between the tin cans.

 

[MBDiagMan]

You're probably right! That's how they're able to turn corners with it.

 

[jcalla]

Hey Riverrat, as a matter of fact I still have a rotary phone downstairs in the Model T garage of our '50s era bungalow. It works fine as long as I don't get too many metal particals on it from the grinding wheel next to it. Then I go out to the shed across the street and get in my new 4720 & rock & roll in the modern era.

JPC

 

[MBDiagMan]

I've never tried it, but I expect that a rotary phone would work fine on a tone system for incoming calls.

 

[Riverrat]

I do shoot a pump shotgun not an automatic. Glad yall have a sense of humor. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[Rob-D]

Let's hear it for those bulletproof electrolytic capacitors.



It's mechanical, the ABS is electronic. Ask yourself this, if the ABS fails, what is left?



You're not alone, I'm not a skin flint, but I can be very happy with the KISS principle. Someone mentioned 0s and 1s along with, "Every time you add a layer of complication you increase the failure rate." If you lose a 0, then what? Yes, it's mostly programming at that point, but not everything has to be electronic or digital. Personally, I don't like the costs of high technology. That's my 2 cents, got to go out now and reboot the truck.

P.S. - rotary phones still work on most systems.

One of the reasons I own a non-turbo tractor is because of the extra parts. BUT, they are mechanical parts adding to a mechanical system.

I think everyone will agree that today's TV's are much more complex but who wants to go back to a round picture tube from 1950?
Anyone here want to give up their laptop for a typewriter and snail mail?
What we're talking about is technology. Whether it's an LCD TV or ABS, both are better systems. Air bags save lives, are they complex? Sure. I like my plain mechanical lathes but when you need one there's nothing like CNC or the controlled arc of a TIG welder.

K7LN I have a K2, it beats the pants off my old Heathkits. Is it more complex? You bet! Want to give up an automatic antenna tuner? I think I'll keep mine.

Rob

 

[k0ua]

K7LN I have a K2, it beats the pants off my old Heathkits. Is it more complex? You bet! Want to give up an automatic antenna tuner? I think I'll keep mine.

Icom 756pro3 here. I am not giving up my spectrum display, or fast, quiet, fully automatic antenna tuner, even tho most of the componets in the radio are Surface Mount Devices, and you need a microscope to see them.:laughing: Nothing mechanical in the radio, not even the volume control, the control just tells the microprocessor where to set the audio, I can control everything from the pc just as easy. I think complex things are here to stay
James K0UA