On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:56:53 -0000, John Rumm wrote:

On 10/03/2012 18:28, Lieutenant Scott wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:54:14 -0000, Mike Clarke
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:42:13 +0000
Alan wrote:

They are OK as long as you are wearing Wellington boots and keep one
hand in your pocket.

Thus ensuring that it doesn't light up when you touch it onto a live
wire, leading you to believe it's safe to work on.

Doesn't it light up using your capacitance?

And if you are capacitively coupled to something live yourself, the
potential difference across the neon and resistor is?

Hasn't ever happened to me.

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