Re: VDT Electric Fields

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 23:29

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In article <1991Feb13.002236.8087@sj.ate.slb.com> jones@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com (Clark Jones) writes:
>And the designers of this equipment, in their infinite wisDUMB, put the
>on/off switches on the _BACK_ so you've got to get "up close and personal"
>to turn the thing on or off!

This in turn is a safety issue.  Keeping the 110VAC wiring in a tight little
clump at the back makes it substantially easier to pass safety standards for
shock hazard, especially when you can use a plug/fuse/filter/switch/etc.
module built by somebody else instead of having to do all that high-hazard
wiring yourself.
-- 
"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: VDT Electric Fields
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.232959.28401@zoo.toronto.edu>
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