Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!olivea!mintaka!ai-lab!mobot!bleck From: bleck@mobot.ai.mit.edu (Olaf Bleck) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: HELP! Message-ID: <13003@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 26 Jan 91 23:01:47 GMT References: <1991Jan24.041804.13890@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan26.041208.25354@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan26.195657.31309@wpi.WPI.EDU> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 10 Seems to me it's the old P=IV that really does the killing... It also seems to me that the point is to fry the nerves that keep that sucker pumping, not unlike putting an 1/8 watt resistor across an unregulated 10w power supply... (something stinks in here--did someone blow up their nerd kit?) -Olaf