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Bill in Winnipeg

My interests include electrical engineering, history of techonolgy, amateur radio and a few others. I'm no scholar, but I hope I can improve the content of a few articles. And I find I really enjoy editing!


The Vision Thing

I've been logging into Wikipedia since November 2004 but the last few weeks I've not done anything since I'm recovering from a detached retina - even now my sight in my right eye is poor and this is the first time I've had enough blurry vision in that eye to try to log on. My ophthalmologist has seen me this week and hasn't given me any indications that I won't make a good recovery, but it's only been 15 days since the scleral buckle and cryoprobe operation. A scary thing, to lose one's sight...and a modern day miracle to get it back again. Wish me luck. If the sight keeps inmproving at this rate, in a couple of weeks I may be able to drive again. --Wtshymanski 21:50, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
My vision is much better now...at least I can use the computer without much eye strain. --Wtshymanski 02:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'd say being able to spend 2 or 3 hours on Wikipedia a day indicates that my vision has a good degree of usability. And next week I find out if I can make the grade for driving. Cross fingers. --Wtshymanski 16:25, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hooray! My optometrist tells me that with a new prescription for my glasses, I'll have better than the legal minimum for driving. I'm going back to work on the 25th of April, so I won't be Wiki-ing nearly as much; but it sure has helped keep me from boredom the last month. --Wtshymanski 06:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Back at work for 2 weeks. Seeing is believing. --Wtshymanski 16:43, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
And now I've got cataract surgery scheduled for early October. Wish me luck.
  • : Not a problem, I had it (Surgery), and now have a fake lens, Just turned 50! Just need Reading glasses. Important to follow all prep instructions week before. Scotty....
I'm now one week after the cataract operation in my left eye and my vision is back! I had an immediate improvement right after the operation, wish I'd done it a year ago. My thanks to Dr. Lisa Gould and the team at Misercordia. --Wtshymanski 16:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


To Do List

  • Diagram of an electric arc furnace
  • Diagram of a computer bus Leave it to those who are more motivated.
  • Look at the article on programmable logic controllers and see if I can touch it up
  • Table of integrated circuit logic speeds, probably gate delay, and typical flip-flop toggle speed, along with power per gate. (April 22, 2005)
  • Generator needs that picture of a-loop-of-wire-turning-in-a-magnetic-field-hooked-to-a-commutator-and-lighting-a-bulb that we've all seen a billion times.
  • Diagram for split phase - got a new drawing package that makes .PNGs! 05 08 17
  • Get Manitoba Hydro peer-reviewed. Had a stab at it, not much comment.
  • Do some more history and references for Electrical engineering 05 05 16
Wow. Did *that* turn sour. Never cross the Teslaphiles.
What a mess - our friend Light Current has a bug about electronics vs. electrical. 06 01 02
  • Block diagram for UART, started, but not completed yet. Great hopes for Inkscape.
  • Bit serial diagram for asynchronous communication
  • Syntax and grammar for transmitter which is not a good idiomatic translation into English
  • Category:Transmitters - someone has industriously contributed several score articles that could be usefully categorized. 05 05 29
  • AC power network stability - do I understand it well enough to explain it? 05 08 17
  • Power cable needs the history out of the Underground Systems book 06 01 02


Articles that I've been editing

First editor of

I have merged or redirected many more articles than I've created.

Lots of edits to

Touched on

Images

  • Recreational walkie-talkies
  • Televideo terminal
  • Nelson River Bipole converter station and valve hall
  • Manitoba Hydro Pointe du Bois station interior
  • Power triangle
  • Sine waves and three-phase power
  • Red River Floodway control structure
  • Seven Sisters Generating Station for Manitoba Hydro article
  • Knob and tube for electrical wiring
  • Hydroelectric turbine runner (propeller type)
  • Spillway (Gardiner Dam gates)
  • KIM-1 single board computer

Bill's Book References

  • Terrell Croft and Wilford Summers (ed), American Electricans' Handbook, Eleventh Edition, McGraw Hill, New York (1987) ISBN 0070139326
  • Donald G. Fink and H. Wayne Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Eleventh Edition,McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978, ISBN 007020974X
  • David E. Fisher and Marshall J. Fisher, Tube, the Invention of Television Counterpoint, Washington D.C. USA, (1996) ISBN 1887178171
  • C. C. Furnas, Joe McCarthy et. al, (ed), The Engineer , Time Incorporated, New York, (1966), no ISBN, Library of Congress card no. 66-24569.
  • Rick Gilmour et. al, editor, Canadian Electrical Code Part I, Nineteenth Edition, C22.1-02 Safety Standard for Electrical Installations, Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario Canada (2002) ISBN 155324600X
  • Thom Hogan and Mike Iannamico, Osborne 1 User's Reference Guide,(1982) Osborne Computer Corporation
  • Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics 2nd Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989 ISBN 0521370957
  • Edwin J. Houston and Arthur Kennelly, Recent Types of Dynamo-Electric Machinery, copyright American Technical Book Company 1897, published by P.F. Collier and Sons New York, 1902
  • A. H. Howatson, "An Introduction to Gas Discharges", Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1965 - especially Chapter 8.
  • Don Lancaster, "TTL Cookbook", Howard W. Sams and Co., Indianapolis, 1975, ISBN 0672210355
  • David A. Lien, The BASIC Handbook, 2nd Edition Encyclopedia of the BASIC Computer Language",(1981), Compusoft Publishing
  • Jacob Millman, "Microelectronics Digital and Analog Circuits and Systems", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1979 ISBN 007042327X
  • Scott Mueller Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Second Edition, Que Books, 1992, ISBN 0-88022-856-3
  • Paul J. Nahin, Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude, (1988), IEEE Press, New York, ISBM 0879422386
  • John D. Ryder and Donald G. Fink, Engineers and Electrons, IEEE Press, New York, (1984) ISBN 087942172X
  • Henry H. Ryffel (ed.), Machinery's Handbook 23rd Edition, Industrial Press Inc. New York, 1988 ISBN 083111200X
  • J. W. Sims et al, (ed) The Boy Electrician, Eighth Edition George Harrap, London (1965) no ISBN
  • F. Langford Smith, The Radiotron Designer's Handbook Third Edition, (1940), The Wireless Press, Sydney, Australia, no ISBN, no Library of Congress card
  • The Engineering Staff, The TTL Data Book for Design Engineers, 1st Ed., Texas Instruments, Dallas Texas, 1973, no ISBN
  • William D. Stevenson, Jr. Elements of Power System Analysis Third Edition,McGraw-Hill, New York (1975) ISBN 0070612854
  • Gordon J. Van Wylan and Richard F. Sontag, Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics SI Version 2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1976, ISBN 0471041882
  • Ernst Weber and Frederik Nebeker, The Evolution of Electrical Engineering, IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey USA, 1994 ISBN 0780310557
  • H. P. Westman et al, (ed), Reference Data for Radio Engineers, Fifth Edition, 1968, Howard W. Sams and Co., no ISBN, Library of Congress Card No. 43-14665
  • Larry D. Wolfgang et. al, (ed), The ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs, Sixty-Eighth Edition , (1991), ARRL, Newington CT USA ISBN 0872591689
  • Alan Wyatt, Electric Power: Challenges and Choices,(1986),Book Press Ltd., Toronto, ISBN 0920650007
  • Electronics Industries Association, EIA Standard 449 November 1977, reprinted in Telebyte Technology "Data Communication Library" Greenlawn NY, 1985, no ISBN, no Library of Congress card number
  • Electronics Industries Association, "EIA Standard RS-232-C Interface Between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Communication Equipment Employing Serial Data Interchange", August 1969, reprinted in Telebyte Technology "Data Communication Library" Greenlawn NY, 1985, no ISBN
  • [1] "PC 97 Hardware Design Guide", 1997, Microsoft Press, Redmond Washington USA, ISBM 1572313811
  • NFPA 70, National Electrical Code 2002, National Fire Protection Association, Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts USA, (2002). no ISBN
  • Regulations for Electrical Installations Fifteenth Edition 1981, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, (1981) Hitchin, Herts. United Kingdom, no ISBN
  • Westinghouse Corporation, Applied Protective Relaying, 1976, Westinghouse Corporation, no ISBN, Library of Congress card no. 76-8060 - a standard reference on electromechanical protection relays
  • BASIC 80 Reference Manual, Microsoft Corporation, no date

What I want to see in a technology article

I like *depth* in an article.

  • What is it?
  • Who uses it?
  • How does it work?
  • Where did it come from? When?
  • Who made the first one? When?
  • Who were the rivals in the development phase?
  • What did we use for that job before it was invented?
  • How was it developed?
  • How big/small/powerful/costly is it?
  • What is/was the social effect of it?
  • How does/did it affect the environment?
  • What seems likely to succeed it?


Wikifiction

A Wikifiction is an article on some eccentric topic that starts off on Wikipedia, and eventually spreads to free encyclopedias everywhere, thereby gaining a spurious credibility among those who still touchingly believe that if it's on the World Wide Web, it must be true ( see Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for a discussion of themeaning of truth, the meaning of meaning, truth of meaning, or if there is anything meaningful to be said about truth at all. The problem arises either when the proponent of the Wikifiction (who may not be intending to mislead, but may be misinformed, over-enthusiastic, or biassed) either cannot be refuted by other editors due to the esoteric nature of the article, or else when the proponent is indefatigable at reverting or otherwise maintaining his cherished, though odd and singular, beliefs. A Wikifiction may only be supported by references to Web sites which may also be maintained by terribly sincere people with unusual views. See also and contrast Wikifraud, linkspam,sillypedia,crank (person).

Milestone - 1000

Counting only edits in the "articles" spaces, and including minor edits, just now (June 2,2005 12:34 CDT)I've made my 1000th edit. It was to the Stirling engine article.

Projects to check out

Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery

Transformer Pic

Hi Bill,

Reference Transformer 161KV Primary Delta 13.8kV Secondary WYE, 47MVA, Medium voltage is up to 35KV. Adjusted text accordingly/ Thanks

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Thanks, Scotty

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