Though usually earth leakage devices require a manual reset.
Don't like the thought of that much leakage grounding through the pc though.
Uck...
Paul
Quoting Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:49 +1200, paul schulz wrote:
I've seen this where touching the metal shield on the outside of the
plug, i can feel 50Hz, and measure about 100volts open cct. The
scanner still worked though, and i put it down to a cheap power supply
in the scanner. As Rex says, it will ground itself through the pc. You
may start getting problems if the leakage is such that it starts to
trip any earth leakage cct breakers upstream from where you are.
Hmmmm.
That might explain why the computer was resetting itself randomly when I
had the scanner plugged in for a few hours before I noticed the sparking
huh? :)
