Sounds to me like "Do as I say, not as I do..." > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:58:35 -0400 > 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 >
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