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In article <1992Apr14.025731.4589@aero.org> helfman@aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.063137.18999@u.washington.edu> pollock@milton.u.washington.edu (Joe Pollock) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr12.140143.420@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
>>>
>>BTW - I found out about all of this the hard way.  I was in the eight or
>>ninth grade, and messing around with a sign transformer in the basement.
>
>Funny, I was exactly the same age when I got my first (and last) shock from
>a sign transformer. I was at a junior high carnival and I set up a

I guess that age 13 and the 9th grade is the time in our lives when we decide
to A)build a jacobs ladder, and B)take a jolt from our creation.
Same story here! 9th grade science project, an oil burner xformer putting out
10Kv@24ma. I thought it was powered down and grabbed the two coat hanger wires
I was using as the ladder (one wire in the left hand, one in the right) Im
just glad that they pulled off the terminals as I rolled up in the tightest
little ball of a fetal position on the floor. The worst shock I have ever
had. But, it taught me to always be extra sure that something is powered down
before you touch (came in real handy when I was working on 100Kw bdcast
xmtrs!!).

Mike Hess
AT&T Bell Labs
Middletown, NJ. USA