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1. • 
   • Jerry Carter
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 08:13

   Best of luck, sparky.
2. • 
   • Jake Howlett
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 08:50

   Sparks are the last thing I want Jerry ;o)
3. • 
   • Chris Whisonant
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 08:53

   Have fun! As a former electrician, a little 120Volt is good for you! I got "bit" a couple of times one day because it was too muddy and rainy for me to go outside and turn the breakers off and on to test!
4. • 
   • Patrick Corey
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 10:09

   I am sure you will have a shocking blog entry should the project prove to be explosive.
5. • 
   • Jerry Carter
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 10:41

   What Chris said. It won't hurt you... that much. You never know how loud you can scream till you ground out though. Woo! I've still got the subdermal ruptured capilaries to show some of the path the jolt took on the way to the wet concrete underfoot.

   Of course, street lamps have an uncanny propensity to go off at my approach now...
6. • 
   • Jake Howlett
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 12:08

   Over here we're on 240v. Hurts a bit more and comes with the risk of death. I'm still alive though and just managed the brain-teaser of wiring a 2-way light switch circuit.
7. • 
   • Stan Rogers
   • Fri 10 Jun 2005 17:20

   Oh, c'mon. 240V? I used to regularly hurl myself across the room with 100KV back in my radar-fixin' days. Oh, I can hear you now: "That's DC, Stan. Not the same thing at all." Well, I got to work in confined spaces (think, oh, half the space under your kitchen sink -- the electronics bay in an airplane is smaller than you'd think) with 3-phase 550V 400Hz too. Sooner or later your power of speech comes back, and feeling your toes isn't such a special thing anyway 8o)
8. • 
   • Jerry Carter
   • Sat 11 Jun 2005 23:56

   Why is it that a majority of the people responding to this post have actually been electrocuted? And what does that say about us, aside from "occasionally glows in the dark"?
9. • 
   • Wild Bill
   • Sun 12 Jun 2005 10:03

   Look on the bright side. Ben Rose *actually* has his server in the kitchen, and occassionally has to wipe foodstuffs off the side of it. Hence his sticky website..

   ---* Bill
10. • 
    • Michael
    • Mon 13 Jun 2005 08:33

    I agree Stan.... nothing like the zap that a magnetron from a long range ship-borne aircraft radar can deliver. A colleague of mine was pointing at the magnetron tube with a pencil and it arced through the pencil, his body, and burnt off a section of the back of his shirt as he was leaning against the steel bulkhead. We almost got to use the 2x4 on him but he fell backwards. He survived and only ended up with a nice hole in his thumb.
11. • 
    • Stan Rogers
    • Mon 13 Jun 2005 15:58

    How many (present and former) Navy-attached avionics techs do we have around here anyway?
12. • 
    • Jerry Carter
    • Tue 14 Jun 2005 07:23

    Hmm... two days and Jake has yet to return from his enlightening adventure. This can't be good.
13. • 
    • ursus
    • Tue 14 Jun 2005 09:54

    well, it's tuesday and still no news - maybe I should cancel that payment we made ;o)
14. • 
    • Scott Wichall
    • Tue 19 Jul 2005 06:32 AM

    Well I hope you got that little lot signed off by Building Control and got all your completion certificates stamped in triplicate and signed in blood

    Bloody stupid electrical regs!

    Apparently, I am not considered capable of putting on an outside socket, although I have a HND in electrical power engineering from a previous life!

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