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- From: steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia)
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.213547.7030@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc. Houston
- References: <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Jul22.173218.26194@unx.ucc.okstate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:35:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.173218.26194@unx.ucc.okstate.edu> martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) writes:
- >startled me. The 200uf capacitor really nailed me and what's even better,
- >it still made a big spark when I shorted it out later so as not to get hit
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- I built the input stages of a 2KVA modular multi-output battery-backed
- power supply for a school project ... The 110VAC went through a big
- choke and a bridge into a bank of six 2000 uFd electrolytics. It never
- bit me but it did evaporate about an inch of multimeter probe on one
- occasion. The fool thing takes about five minutes to discharge through
- a 5-watt resistor. Trying to do it with a screwdriver is not advised :-)
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- Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services, Inc. (713) 661-3301
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