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Fuck 'gemini'. I don't trust a glorified chat bot with life and death advice. Don't be simping for a chatbot ran by an objectively evil corpo.
I don't care what the actual max voltage is. That search was a shortcut to find the manufacturer spec summary while looking at third party probes. Not 'gemini's' summary or anything else. I don't want electrical, romance, or life advice from a chatbot. I want links to relevant resources.
Bro, you use google
AI Mode All Products Visual matches Here is a highly technical, multi-layered question about nuclear power plant operations, thermodynamics, and safety systems. The Challenge During a sudden Load Rejection (a complete disconnect from the electrical grid) from 100% full power at a Westinghouse 3-loop Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), the turbine control valves slam shut immediately. Assuming the Reactor Trip System (RTS) fails to automatically actuate due to a mechanical binding of the control rods—initiating an Anticipated Transient Without Scram (ATWS) event—answer the following three-part question: Thermodynamic Feedback: Explain the immediate (<30 seconds) chronological response of the Core Reactivity (Δ ρ). Specifically, address how the competing effects of the Fuel Doppler Temperature Coefficient and the Moderator Temperature Coefficient (MTC) interact as primary coolant temperature and pressure rapidly spike. Overpressure Protection: The Pressurizer Power Operated Relief Valves (PORVs) and Safety Valves will lift to mitigate the primary system pressure spike. If the primary pressure exceeds the secondary side steam generator pressure, what critical heat transfer phenomenon is threatened on the primary side of the steam generator tubes, and what are the implications for fuel cladding integrity? Emergency Mitigation: Since the control rods failed to insert, operators must initiate Emergency Boration. Why is a highly concentrated boric acid solution injected into the Reactor Coolant System (RCS) effective at shutting down the fission chain reaction even when the coolant is at peak transient temperatures, and which specific isotope is doing the heavy lifting? Take your time to break down the neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and plant systems involved. When you are ready, let me know your answer or which part you want to tackle first, and I can validate your response or provide the detailed technical solution.
Do you understand that?
Is that Gemini's fault that you didn't understand that?
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Can't help you there buddy.
Gemini correctly summarized the limitations of that item. If you can't read that, then that's on you. Gemini actually asked for your specific parameters. One might surmise that you shouldn't be allowed near high voltage things to begin with if you can't read basic limitations and refuse clarifications from Gemini.
I personally don't give a shit wherher you trust Gemini or not. But it seems to me that you need remedial help with basic English and IEC standards.
Sorry. That's not on Gemini. That's on you.
you are batshit insane if you are genuinely arguing so confidently that OP should have just believed what gemini responded with. this is not about reading comprehension you dumbass. go see a doctor.
Gemini was 💯 % correct.
No I'm not batshit crazy. I can read a simple spec sheet. Been doing it for a few years now.
I don't give a fuck if it summarized the specs correctly. It's been proven to be wrong often enough that trusting it to be correct when dealing with life and death issues is foolish.
I searched a basic spec to get a link to a manufacturer spec list. The bot offfered to vet my setup for safety. It seems you're suggesting that it's a good idea to listen to a chatbot for high voltage safety advice.
I'm not the one with the comprehension issue here.
I didn't ask for high voltage safety tips from a chatbot. It offered them. If you don't think that's dangerous and wildly irresponsible, you're being disingenuous at best and willfully ignorant at worst.
It's not me that's going to be killed. it's people that don't know enough to not trust a fucking chat bot. Do you really trust a bot to explain ground loops, isolation transformers, and floating test equipment? If so, I feel real bad for any kids you might be training.
So just scroll the fuck down and click on the link to the manufacturers datasheet.
Did Gemini disable your scroll wheel?
You admit that the summary is correct. Couldn't you have found an example where it's giving bad advice?
If it kills some stupid people who are too lazy to check out other sources, who honestly cares, the world could use that.
that won't save other people. don't be afraid, OP is not fearing for himself, but he fears the safety of others. if it wasn't entirely obvious.
but probably gemini just disabled your reading comprehension, so don't even bother responding.
those people are not lazy but gullible. I don't know what to say if you don't think at least 60% of people believe gemini knows what it says.
I said that the were stupid and lazy, you don't think gullible was implied there?
Says the person who thinks that
Is the way to phrase a written argument.
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Absolutely, totally trust it. It will give me multiple citations. I can look them up.
It was pretty specific! DON'T USE THIS ABOVE 300 VOLTS! AI: "If you have any questions about how you're going to use it, just ask me".