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To: g'nad
btw... 220 ain't ferever like Ramius said, but it'll leave yuh smokin' across the yard...

A good adage is "voltage hurts, amperage kills." Something I kept in mind in working on "wimpy" 5-volt mainframe power supplies rated at 4000 amps. Those things had capacitors the size of office wastebaskets.

6,003 posted on 01/18/2005 7:00:22 PM PST by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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I'm dead tired folks. See you tomorrow.


6,004 posted on 01/18/2005 7:07:21 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: My resolution? Spend more time with my friends in the Hobbit Hole!)
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To: 300winmag
good adage is "voltage hurts, amperage kills."

learned that one young... and heed it...

wimpy" 5-volt mainframe power supplies rated at 4000 amps

yeeeesh... cautious with good reason...

hadda young engineer on Okinawa we called "Sparky"... he hadda disturbin' habit off findin' the hot wire by touch...

6,023 posted on 01/19/2005 5:26:47 AM PST by g'nad
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