About potatos. I have always heard about taking out broken light bulbs with potatos and I have even done it my self and it works great. Now I have a question about potatos in particular. I have heard that you can power a very small light or some thing by hooking it up some how to a potato. I dont know if you hook one lead to the potato and one to a glass of water or one to the potato and the other to a metal ground or how that works. Can any one address this little bit of trivia? Second if a potato has some type of charge how does that fit into the equation when handling the potential of a live circuit?
-----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:24 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock A potato will probably comply with instructions more readily that is true! Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rj" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:rjf1%40velocity.net> > To: < blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > Isn't it a lot simpler to just use a potato? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dale Leavens > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:45 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > > > Clifford, > > An addendum to #8: > > Regardless of complaints of sensations, instruct spouse or significant > other > to remove residual bulb detritus by rotating it counter clockwise. IF she > is > experiencing difficulties in comprehension try the instruction "Lefty > Loosy". > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "clifford" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:clifford%40tds.net> > > To: < blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:23 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > > > Dear David: > > One fairly safe way to check for the presence of electrical voltage, > > before working on your lights would be the following: > > 1. dig a whole in the lawn just outside your garage, about eight feet > > deep; > > 2. Fill the whole with a mixture of soil and ground charcoal; > > 3. Wet the whole with several gallons of water which is introduced at a > > slow rate; > > 4. Drive a standard copper-coated eight foot ground rod down in to the > > whole tamping the loose mixture around the ground rod: > > 5. attach a heavy copper wire to the ground rod and using insolated > > gloves, use the other end of the copper wire to probe the entire area > > inside and on the edge of the light socket and broken bulb, taking care > > not to cut yourself on any glass that may remain; > > 6. Once the probing is done, attach one lead of a volt meter to the > > copper wire, and using the other probe from the volt meter, check to > > ascertain if there is any voltage measured from all points available to > > you and the wire > > 7. 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