If your colleage doesn't understand why you shouldn't mix water and electricity in general, just tell him that water has a tendency to be rather unpredictable and can go anywhere. Someone likened it to a three dimensional resistor and that's an excellent example. Add to it a very deformable 3D resistor. And since electricity likes to follow water, electricity will also end up going anywhere.
Other than that, I agree it's a pretty naive question. I picture the guy in bare feet on the metal ladder in water with drill in hand asking, "so what's the matter?" - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
