A dumb electrical question (please educate me)

[Ronbo]

Yea, it helps if you compare it to something you've actually seen. I've done everything from thumping tubes in my dad's TV shop to working with Radio equipment (all sorts of wierd stuff happens with radio frequencies).

Only under certain conditions can you see, taste, touch or hear electricity. It's behaviour is only understood when you know the theroy. For example at very high frequencies factors like eddy currents and parasitic leakage have to be compensated for in circuit design. (beyond me, I'm a technician not an engineer)

One school I attended was almost two months solid of Aro-space level soldering and circuit board repair. The ET school I attended in the Navy had a 50% drop rate and myself and two other guys were the only ones out of 80people to make it through the entire course without getting set back.

I've got a stack of diplomas around here, somewhere, and there's still a bunch of stuff that's beyond me how it works. Personally I'm thinking furnature reupolstering might have been a more sane way to make a living.