Jim McDonald on power networks
The Life Scientific
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How Did You Decide You Wanted to Be an Electrical Engineer?
I would say around about 15-ish, about one or two seminal moments of understanding metaphorically and physically the power in electricity. Like all kids in my era were also fancied being rock stars, ultimately. So I was part of a band that would form with two other of my friends in school. We played at school concerts, we managed to ultimately get a couple of residencies at local hotels. But again, in treatment of the power of electricity, I had to back off my amplifiers a few times... it's best to do that type of work when the amplifier is not still connected to the main supply.
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