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Article #1194Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1989 18:04
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1989 18:04
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In article <17660013@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes: >>>> It's not the volts that kill, it's the amps. >>> >>>Y'know, that last is said often enough that people are starting to repeat >>>it as Holy Writ without actually understanding it. >> >>Major power companies repair high-tension (quarter-million-volt) lines >>in remote areas by sending cable dogs up in helicopters to work on the >>live wires barehanded. >> >>It ain't the volts that kill, it's the amps. >> >> "Or, in my case, it's the vertigo..." > >Blair, did you actually READ my entire posting? I'll ignore that. --Blair "It ain't the responses that kill, it's the flames."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector Message-ID: <3728@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 12 Aug 89 18:04:36 GMT References: <248@sopwith.UUCP> <17660013@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 21