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Article #1181Re: Touching a "hot" connector
From: Eric Hughes
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 20:27
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 20:27
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As long as we're telling stories about electric fences, I once had a farmer show me how he tested his electric fence. He took a long piece of green grass, held one end between thumb and forefinger, and touched the other end to the fence wire. Without about eight inches of plant material between your hand and the fence, all you feel is a little thump when the pulse comes through. He even did an impromptu demonstration of Ohm's Law, by showing us how the thump got stronger if you put less grass in the conduction path. :-) Eric Hughes hughes@math.berkeley.edu ucbvax!math!hughes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!root From: hughes@math.berkeley.edu (Eric Hughes) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Touching a "hot" connector Message-ID: <1989Aug11.202755.7312@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 20:27:55 GMT Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Agatha;B1 Evans;;;ZU00;;;;2) Reply-To: hughes@math.berkeley.edu (Eric Hughes) Organization: UC Berkeley Math Dept Lines: 13