Don't we all - and so do the people watching! Had great fun a few years ago showing engineers at one company what a dielectric strength tester at 6kVac can do! - but, oh boy, did they cringe!
I suppose we've all had a few "belts" over the years and know what to expect if we get it wrong (but that we survived the last time, so it'll be alright next time!) Flash-happy landings! John Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: RE: Mutineer > > Brian, > > I too change light switches and wall outlets without shutting off the > breaker. This leaves the lights on in the room and provides an element > of danger and excitement. People often cringe when I work on operating > HV equipment. > > Dave Cuthbert > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:59 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re:Mutineer > > > > A friend of mine did that to be able to plug his TV set into one of > those very > old two pin receptacles that doesn't have the one larger polarizing > slot. After > a few months of very high electric bills he investigated and found that > his TV > set plug was in backwards causing the chassis ground to be HOT including > the > coax line to his TV antenna. He obviously didn't have his antenna > grounded but > there must have been enough leakage current to drive his electric bill > up. > > Do you also wire things around your house without turning off the > breaker? I do > that. I wonder what other crazy things safety engineers are doing out > there like > cutting the ground tab off the plug of their microwave. (Every time my > wife > revs up the microwave I wet my pants and forget who I am for half an > hour.) > > Brian > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________ > Subject: Mutineer > Author: [email protected] > Date: 5/06/04 12:35 PM > > > I consider myself a responsible, conscientious product safety engineer. > I wish to publicly announce that I grind off the polarizing ears on the > pins > of all my US two pin power plugs. > > So THERE. :^) > > Bob Johnson > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
