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Is There An Electrician in the House?
Doug Miller wrote:
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:26:38 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:
In article , Mark Lloyd
wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:10:02 -0600, Puddin' Man
wrote:
Why do you expect perfection? Such a thing doesn't exist, and can't.
There is no way to be 100% certain of not making a mistake.
Garbage.
This...
And if there were any doubt, I'd go outside, snip the seal,
pull the meter, and plop the damned thang down on my
workbench in the basement.
.. is a 100% certain way of not making the mistake of backfeeding the utility
lines.
That is, 100% multiplied by the probability of no mistakes, and that
can NEVER be 100%. Not here. Hot anywhere anything like here.
What, you think there *is* some way to backfeed the utility with the meter
removed? Not unless you deliberately *try* to do it.
Yes there is and linemen have died because of it.
--
Tom Horne
Well we aren't no thin blue heroes and yet we aren't no blackguards to.
We're just working men and woman most remarkable like you.
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