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- From: eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot)
- Subject: Re: Help!Static Charge Shock--Civic
- Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.201650.12177@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:16:50 GMT
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- Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- In article <92357.121616QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu>, <QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec17.170454.16567@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>,
- |> derx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu says:
- |> >
- |> shocked from time. Actually in my country (P.R.China), many buses has a chain
- |> beneath the door. Each time when the door opens, that chain drop to the ground
- |> simultaneously making sure everything is discharged. On those without this
- |> thing, sometimes, not always, the first passenger will take the place of that
- |> chain and discharge for everyone behind when his/her foot touch the ground.
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- There exist strips of conductive rubber you can buy and bolt to the underside
- of your car, to dangle down and maintain contact with the ground. Quieter
- than dragging a chain :-)
-
- You may also have seen funny little pieces of wire sticking up out of the
- ground about a foot just before toll-taking booths, that scrape gently against
- the underside of each car as it goes through. This is so that the toll-taker
- person doesn't melt down from discharging all those cars.
-
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