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Re: [PLUG] Laptop reboots -- Comcast or static or age?
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Wow, someone who remembers tubes.
Anyway, the lower limit for a fatal shock is 30 mA which is what would
develop across about four watts at house hold voltage. If you are
intending to shock yourself fatally, the shock must go through the heart.
Anybody who wears sneakers and does not insist upon hanging onto the cold
water pipe while working is reasonably safe. With high voltage equipment,
we were encouraged to use only one hand so as to not accidently have the
other hand on ground when we were playing with the actually high voltage
contact.
The problem with transient shock is not what it does to you, irritation to
be sure, but what it does to those damned delicate microchips that make up
your machines. Tubes and even discrete transisters were much more
forgiving and take that from one who has become afraid to play with a
solder gun because of the new fangled junk. I would go to the length of
using blocks that could be soldered to rest the chips in.
bs
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, jeff wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 05:17, Eric Hidle wrote:
> > Just some FYI on grounding
> >
> > The standard model for human ESD is a 6kV charge with a capacitcance of
> > something like 22pF, which is probably insufficient to electrocute you.
>
> you're all a bunch of sissies :)
>
> Real men work with high B+ voltages on their tubes and no grounding whatsoever.
> Real men aren't afraid to stick their probes into powered-up equipment.
> Real men shrug off a few hundred volts here and there.
>
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