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Re: Tingles from power supply

#1413
From: FunkyPunk FieldEffectTrollsistor
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:38
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:25:33 +1100, F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote:

>FunkyPunk FieldEffectTrollsistor wrote:
>> 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.
>Now we are calling neons bulbs

  Idiot.  Neon lamps are encapsulated in glass bulbs, and 'bulb' is a
perfectly acceptable term for them.

 She wasn't talking about the bar sign down the street where you tanked
your brain out decades ago, dumbass.

  It only gets several million hits on google.

 You dopes are truly stupid.
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