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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector
Message-ID: <17660013@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 17:57:29 GMT
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>>>	It doesn't matter wether it's 120 or 220, They're both
>>>	lethal.  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.

>				--Blair
>				  "Or, in my case, it's the vertigo..."


Blair, did you actually READ my entire posting?

Bob M.