Posts by jantill 11 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2016
Minor correction.
Tony Blair was PM at the time. It was Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer who decided to amalgamate the Inland Revenue with Customs and Excise with a planned saving (or should I say destruction) of 20,000 jobs.
It was decided that HMRC would be given all the powers of Customs and Excise which were considerable.
MOO is indeed complex but I believe that being obliged to offer and accept work at the end of a package of work is not MOO.
There have been arguments in court that there can be MOO within a contract.
I believe that to demonstrate a complete absence of MOO the engager should have a right to not offer any work and the contractor should have a right not to accept any work.
Some agents will not accept an explicit absence of MOO because it doesn't suit their purposes of a constant and guaranteed income stream. For engagers/clients it gives them freedom to end or suspend the contract at any time.
IANAL
I understand that many low-earth orbit satellites (around 700km above the earth) designed for ground mapping switch off many of their systems when over the sea to conserve power and also reduce sensitivity to radiation. In addition to this, a plane moving at 700km/hr with a satellite passing by at 30,000km/hr would be unlikely to be recorded by the satellite designed to map the ground.
Criminals make money by whatever means possible.
If drugs were to be legalised such that the livelihoods of the drugs criminals evaporated they are unlikely to get a job shelf-filling in the local store but would find other "easy" ways to make money. That could be by a programme of kidnapping (it could be you or your's abducted).
It is difficult to diagnose a situation from afar but I think that the current rating of the PSU is unlikely to be a direct problem. What is likely to have happened is that the PSU has been designed to a price (i.e. cheaply) and provides the specified output voltage at a particular current. The regulation of the output voltage may be poor and so, with the reduced load of the LED bulbs, will output a higher voltage than the LEDs can comfortably handle. The LEDs would have taken too much current, been very bright then overheated and eventually failed.
So the problem may well be that there is a mismatch between the PSU and the LED needs.
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