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  1. voltair

    Engineering Management

    Thanks MLoew for your reply. You have explained your point nicely and both examples were very suitable. I can now see the subtle differences between managemant and leadership. Best regards, Voltair
  2. voltair

    Engineering Management

    "You don't manage people, you manage technology, projects etc. People need to be lead." Hi MLoew, I also liked this phrase. But I could never quite understand what it meant. I can’t decide whether it is a glib catch phrase of the lecture circuit guru or some profound, deep snippet...
  3. voltair

    24-volt battery vehicles?

    I agree with harrisj about taking 12V from one of the two 12V in series. The advice from vehicle manufacturers is never to do that. Always use a 24v/12v converter. The exception being that it is ok to connect the memory of the radio to one of the batteries due to the very small current used...
  4. voltair

    Help! I'm Sick of CAD.

    Can any of you seriously imagine what life can would be like today without CAD, whether package? CAD packages are merely tools that are being made more sophisticated by the day simply because the hardware they run on is being made more powerful. Why not use the tool available to it's maximum...
  5. voltair

    Engineering Management

    Hi everyone, The principle of mamagement is basically the same for managing anything. If one learns to manage, one can manage engineers, accountants, baseball team, etc. it's all about man-management. The management guru Peter Drucker did have a special word for managing what he called the...
  6. voltair

    Web site for steel cross-referance

    Each country have their own code system for catogerising their various grades of steel. I would like a cross referance table that would give equivalent grades for steel of like properties from each country, such as American, Russian, European, UK etc. An example is, what equivalent American...
  7. voltair

    Web site for steel cross-referance

    I would like to come across a good comprehensive web-site for steel equivalent cross-referance. I am working with cold rolled steel box section, mainly 40x40x4 mm and it is very confusing to visit various sites that give a biased list of standards. My background is not mechanical so I can spend...
  8. voltair

    Correct connectin of multiple loudspeakers

    I have to connect loudspeakers in a seater coach. Each double seat has an 8 ohm 20W speaker. There are 7 such speakers on each side,each side being connected into an amplifier with 20 per channel, 4 ohms impedance. There are many combinations of series/parallel arrangements to get close to 4...

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