Re: OT: WD40 depressing experience
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It doesn't hurt for newbies to be shown, with a live-fire demonstration, why the bang stick is so named. ?it's something to do with junky old HV caps in the few uF range.
Kinda fun, too.
"That was as loud as a gunshot. ?You know what a real gunshot can do, right? ?HV will make you just as dead."
Well, not always, but we've all made the mistake of getting across HV. ?Most of us more than once. ?However, all of us still here have lived to tell about it :)
73 Jim N6OTQ
From: Craig Sawyers
To: TekScopes@...
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:21 PM
Subject: RE: [TekScopes] OT: WD40 depressing experience
>? I was shown the transmitter, the circuit breakers, the
warning > stickers, the dead man's bars, the shorting sticks, etc. and expected to carry > on with due respect for my own health and safety. > > Health and safety are good things but being treated like I am intelligent and > competent are also desirable activities. Absolutely.? I learnt the SIDE rule - Switch off (duur...), Isolate (from incoming power), Dump (residual charge) and Earth (with a stick).? It isn't rocket science - most people have only to be shown how to do it once, and then left to get on with it. Craig
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