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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: My Linux Lair -- A Photo Essay
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:42:59 -0500
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On 1/13/25 1:03 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:39:48 -0500, -hh wrote:
> 
>>
>> the grunge causing
>>
> 
> Grunge?  Ha, ha, ha!  That's just dust.  Simple universal, ubiquitous
> dust.  The same stuff that you inhale with every breath.
> 
>>
>> fire hazard risks, you've also used a magnet for
>> static electricity & the risks thereof.
>>
> 
> This is pure gibberish.  Gibberish.
> 
> "a magnet for static electricity"??????
> 
> Total gibberish.
> 
>>
>> No, it comes from actually being paid to work in a high power lab, where
>> such mistakes can kill you.
>>
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Since when is a transformer that steps line
> voltage down to 12 volts considered "high Power."

Not the point that 12v isn't particularly hazardous : the point was in 
having good safety habits, because lab work isn't always going to be 
just merely 12v at a few Amps.

FYI, even a +5v PSU can kick your ass when its got 500A behind it...and 
if your procedural controls fail, its ample to kill you.

> That circuit is quite innocuous compared to all of the switching power
> supplies which, if not actually hooked to a load, will have the potential
> for fire or damage.

You can keep your bad habits of letting fire hazards lay around 
uncorrected.

> ... 
> Check any electronic supply house and you will find everything that can
> duplicate the breadboard -- and everything is made within the "current
> century and will continue to be made for years and years to come.


Just where does one find new *wooden* perfboards to buy today?  Your 
stuff's patina suggests that it was stolen from a 1970s era high school 
physics lab...back in the 1970s, & its been collecting dust ever since.

-hh