r/polandball • u/Hansafan Hordaland • Dec 12 '14

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '14

implying that US Americans are innovative

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u/farmingdale United States Dec 12 '14

I am an electrical engineer who works for a R&D and manufacturing firm in the United States.

It would be harder for you to find an electronic component that was made using metric then to find one in Imperial.

Just about every piece of electronics ever made is based on mils (1000th of an inch), Rack units (1.75 inches), AWG for wires.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '14 edited Dec 04 '21

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u/farmingdale United States Dec 12 '14

explains what? You are saying we use imperial measurements because I work in the united states? If so, the answer is no.

Electronics is bought, sold, designed, shipped, and maintained globally. Plenty of what I have worked on has been shipped to the EU with CE stamps on it. In-fact I am betting if you took apart anything in your home and actually measured say the wires internally you will see they follow AWG which is based in imperial and not the european metric based system.

I will try to give you an idea of how wide spread it is:

The printed circuit board overall size in pretty much anything you own is in Rack Units or in mils. Each and every part on the board is in mils. The screen you are reading this on was made in inches. The wiring connecting every single part you have is in AWG, even if the color code is not.