JPGrimmace
join:2003-09-16
Pontiac, MI
| Nothing New to Me. Comcast installed cable and internet into my aunts home by running coax through a hole in a second floor (of 4 floor) screen window. This cable had serious grounding issues too and would cause her to lose cable modems regularly. Once, while trying to resolve more connectivity issues, the pin from her coax cable tapped the side of her PC. We got a nasty shock and a new pin sized hole on the side of her PC case from this crap. I'm just glad it wasn't my arm that got that hit. | |
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LeftOfSanity
join:2005-11-06
Felton, DE
| Re: Nothing New to Me. said by JPGrimmace  :Comcast installed cable and internet into my aunts home by running coax through a hole in a second floor (of 4 floor) screen window. This cable had serious grounding issues too and would cause her to lose cable modems regularly. Once, while trying to resolve more connectivity issues, the pin from her coax cable tapped the side of her PC. We got a nasty shock and a new pin sized hole on the side of her PC case from this crap. I'm just glad it wasn't my arm that got that hit. I have to call BS.
The voltage put a tiny hole in the pc case?? Hard to believe.
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 | JPGrimmace
join:2003-09-16
Pontiac, MI | Re: Nothing New to Me. BS? The pin from the coax cable caused a strong spark on contact. It even left burn stains.
Not that it's really needed for me to explain a thing to you. | |
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toadlife
Premium
join:2004-05-03
Lemoore, CA | I believe it. We had a laptop power supply short and melt a gaping hole straight through it's own the connector. It looked like a mini-welding torch had been taken to it. Electricity can be nasty! | |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | I agree, "a pin size whole"? So electricity scodered a whole threw the metal. For this to happen you would need to create a big enough charge to melt metal. The charge carried in the entire cable network is not enough. | |
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Gnoswal
Premium
join:2002-12-07
Feasterville Trevose, PA
| Its very believable that it could happen. Try cutting a live piece romex cable with a pair of side cutters. You'll blow a hole through them quite easily.
But the problem with the person blowing a hole in their computer case when they touched it with the cable line...that wasn't the cable's fault. That was due to the fact that the line the computer was plugged into was ungrounded. There is a short backfeeding through this circuit. So when you touched the comp. case...you completed the circuit and poof. Instant welder.
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GNOSWAL,Comcast,Linksys WRT54G,Vonage,Networked Tivo,Laptop on Wireless "Things involving the computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such, I'd be more in my element." | |
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spenster
join:2001-04-03
Houston, TX | Re: Nothing New to Me. Please tell me you're not speaking from experience. | |
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