Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!sactoh0!americ!erk From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Touching a "hot" connector Message-ID: <1598.AA1598@americ> Date: 8 Aug 89 22:32:32 GMT Followup-To: sci.electronics Distribution: na Lines: 24 >From: malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) Message-ID: <33854@apple.Apple.COM> > Malcolm >P.S. I decided to stick to computers after watching Commonwealth Edison >check to see if a 10-50 kV line was live in the rain by laying a wooden >stick across it and seeing if it sparked. This was called fuzzing the >line. Not my idea of a fun time. Me Too !! Recently here in Sacramento we had some unusual lightning activity. Read.. 1 and a half days of straight lightning (California in the summertime) The local Electric company SMUD lost 300 pots (Line X-formers) in one night. These poor suckers got a LOT of overtime replacing x-formers WHILE the storm was still in full force. Talking to one of the linesman revealed that this money game was a game of Chance as replacing x-formers during an electrical storm Can be a shocking experiance (He called it Blood Money). 7 locals were hit by lightning and a bunch of fires. YOUCH !! For those of you from other localls it NEVER rains in Ca. in the summertime let alone thunders. -- ------------------ // -----------Cut-Here---------------------------------- Erick Parsons // Words for the wise: *If it works don't fix it.* Sacramento Ca // mail to: ...pacbell!sactoh0!americ!erk ------------- \\// --------------------------------------------------------