On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd >>>> got away with it before. >>> >>> The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 >>> cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was >>> the end of that. >>> >>> Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV >>> wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock >>> launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air >>> and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the >>> floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :) >> >> These weren't at the same locale, were they? That sounds like really >> electrical ground. > > *like a really bad electrical ground. (htf?)
The ethernet incident happened at work, which should be grounded, however it was in a cubicle... a cubicle that would give you the tingles if you touched its metallic edges. The TV was at my parents' house in the 1980's, an old home that certainly does not have grounded electrical outlets. Plus I was probably scooting around tall carpet in socks or something prior to it. :)
