Re: Tingles from power supply

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From: FunkyPunk FieldEffectTrollsistor
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:25

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:40:21 +1100, Sylvia Else
<sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:

>
>Yes, I remember an instance when I was working in an office in the UK. I 
>noticed that my electric kettle's neon light stayed on even when the 
>mains power point switch was off. Clearly the powerpoint was wired up 
>the wrong way round.

  Wrong.  Neons excite at 90V.  That voltage can float around more than
you might like to think, particularly with no load, which such a bulb
barely presents.

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