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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)
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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."