Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!wb8foz From: David Lesher Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: electrical deaths Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:17:58 -0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Message-ID: References: <1r3qb00.1fgzoxb1tmjhzN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:17:58 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="3188"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Bytes: 1870 Lines: 20 Don Y writes: >At $WORK, the more common thing was to shed all jewelry as a wedding band >across a 100A supply will turn neatly cauterize the severed finger! >Of course, spouses tend to have raised eyebrows when you return home >without your wedding band in its rightful place (or, worse: with a >flesh-colored bandage wrapped around it!) A mere 100A? A telco Central Office battery plant will supply thousands through a short. See the screwdriver turn orange, All tools were taped up in case they were dropped across the terminals. I recall when TI first made plastic LED watches. Power craft guys LOVED them because with plastic bands, they were safe to wear. -- A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433