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Theodoric · 10-03-2004, 19:26

Well, I was once pulling the front panel out of a piece of equipment, so I gripped it over the top edge and found the hard way that I had also grabbed hold of the mains switch - no, I hadn't disconnected the equipment from the mains! After I'd recovered, blow me if I didn't do exactly the same thing again.

Or the time I cut through a mains cable that I was assured was dead with a pair of edge cutters. Fortunately, I had enough common sense to wrap the handles of the cutters in a handkerchief before I did it.

Or possibly the time I managed to put the full mains across a transistor on a PCB. After the bang, there were 3 wires left in the board and no sign of the transistor.

10-03-2004, 19:26	#23
Theodoric Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Posts: 2,974	Re: Ouch!!! Well, I was once pulling the front panel out of a piece of equipment, so I gripped it over the top edge and found the hard way that I had also grabbed hold of the mains switch - no, I hadn't disconnected the equipment from the mains! After I'd recovered, blow me if I didn't do exactly the same thing again. Or the time I cut through a mains cable that I was assured was dead with a pair of edge cutters. Fortunately, I had enough common sense to wrap the handles of the cutters in a handkerchief before I did it. Or possibly the time I managed to put the full mains across a transistor on a PCB. After the bang, there were 3 wires left in the board and no sign of the transistor.