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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy
Subject: switch in the back (was: Re: VDT Electric Fields)
Summary: there are mechanical solutions
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Date: 22 Feb 91 22:24:04 GMT
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-In article <1991Feb21.183853.28327@sj.ate.slb.com> jones@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com (Clark Jones) writes:
->>This in turn is a safety issue.  Keeping the 110VAC wiring in a tight little
->>clump at the back makes it substantially easier to pass safety standards...

I've seen advertisements for rear power modules where the user actuator is
on the front.  An insulated mechanical linkage (read: long plastic rod) connects
to the actual switch in the module.  Dunno how popular they are - anybody
out there know?

In article <1991Feb22.174257.19533@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Terminals do not ignite very often. :-) ....

Well, I'm not so sure... when I ran a comp center the Televideo were #1 for fires,
followed by Visual and HDS.  After a couple fires I quit ordering the models that
burned. (1/2 (:-))  This, admittedly, was a long time ago.
	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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