Independent of or Independent from?

[NinaZara]

Hi guys,

I need help to perfect this sentence.

The power supply is independent from/of the resistance and is able to provide a constant rate to the device.

Which is the correct one, independent of or independent from?

Thank you in advance.

Have a handsome day!

[Haihao]

Hi Nina,

It seems to me that 'independent of' has a sense of 'regardless' while 'independent from' suggests 'A is separated from B'. e.g. 'The children have been independent from their parents.' In the latter case, A and B should belong to the same realm (or they were together before). Considering the context you gave here, my feeling is 'independent of' would be the right choice to mean 'regardless of the resistance'.

Haihao

[NinaZara]

Thanks, Haihao! great great help!

p/s: I have not yet found the pin yin that you asked me, I even asked my significant other (he's Chinese) but he was no help at all. He's not into this kind of nonsense, or so he said.

Men, you can live with them, you cannot ask them pin yin.(ha ha...just joking )

[Haihao]

Thank you all the same, Nina, for the Pin Yin business, and please get yourself off the hook of the Pin Yin nonsense and just forget about it. (I'm kiddin' )

BTW, you call your him 'my significant other', which made the expression 'my better half' occure to me. I was told, however, it was seldom used by a wife to refer to her husband possibly for the reason that a man was not qualified enough to be 'a better half' . Fortunately you now used the term 'my significant other', with which I was happy enough feeling that at least we are not necessarily 'the worse half'.

haihao

[Pamela]

Hi NinaZara,

I'm curious whether this sentence is correct or not:

The power supply doesn't depend on the resistance and is able to provide a constant rate to the device.

I like the variant.

[NinaZara]

[NinaZara]

[Pamela]

[Yankee]

Hi Nina

I'm no expert in this field, but wouldn't it usually the case that a power supply adjusts to the resistance in order to provide a constant rate to a device?

Amy

[NinaZara]

Yes Amy the power supply adjusts to the resistance to provide a constant rate.

However, in my circuit, there are many other devices that have resistors to enable them to do stirring and certain alterations and I was referring to these resistors. They are situated or put so not to intefere to this one device that I was referring to.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the comment. Maybe I'll think of another way to describe 'the power supply'

[Conchita]

[Alan]

The question is would that expression give you the pip? Oh, and what colour is an orange when nobody's looking at it?

Well, I tried.

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[Conchita]

[NinaZara]

Why orange Conchita? Could it be that orange can be sour or sweet or both at the same time?(and so does a man?)
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