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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
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>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.


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