Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:57:44AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:When I was a kid, about the time when my father was first teaching me about
* Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030327 21:15 PST]:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:23:22PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:Pigeon, dude ... you've got to find some less hostile friends! ;-)
In electronics labs etc, if someone suddenly says "Catch!" and lobsOn Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Pigeon wrote:
Misparsed as "check it with a volunteer". Might be a problem if you're atIt SHOULD have, but often does not. If it does, less than a minute isIf you leave it for a few hours after disconnecting the power, you
should be safe. The power supply should have resistors to discharge the
capacitors when they're switched off.
all you need. If it doesn't, a few days might not be enough. So check
it with a voltmeter.
home or in a small company where a missing luser might be noticed...
something at you, don't catch it. It's probably a capacitor with a
nice hefty charge in it.
Actually, I think that many people in electronics labs are just this way. They're very friendly people otherwise :-)
Full disclosure; my dad taught me this trick when I told him we were
going to do some experiments at school.
electronics, I charged up an electrolytic capacitor using a hand-cranked 'Megger'
(Megohm-meter) and managed to zap myself with it. I must have fallen to the
floor from the shock; I have no idea how long I was out - all I remember is
picking myself up from the floor. A decade or so later I was designing
offline switching power supplies.
After my father died, I inherited his electronic/electrical gear, but strangely
there were no Meggers among the stuff he left behind. I wonder what happened
to them. The nicest thing he ever said to me was "you have that engineering nouse";
this was after he'd outlined a problem he was having and I'd described a simple
solution for him. He's been dead ten years now.
Know of any Electronic CAD systems that run on GNU/Linux, preferably Debian?
Regards, Ross.
