Gnoswal
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join:2002-12-07
Feasterville Trevose, PA
| reply to LeftOfSanity
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." |
