On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:16:01 +0000, Chris Bartram wrote:

On 07/01/2017 21:18, Graham. wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:34:42 +0000, T i m wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 18:10:48 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

In theory they are of course unsafe if a child unscrews a bulb,

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Or worse, a child used to dabbling with wires and stripping them with
their teeth, puts both ends of the broken light loop in their mouth.

And of course they were still plugged in and turned on ... ;-(

It threw me back across the room but I did live to learn a valuable
lesson. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I had a similar experience with a neighbours door bell transformer at
the age of 11 or 12. I assumed the bell wire I was attempting to strip
with my teeth was connected to the secondary side. It wasn't.




I had a similar exerience with a flashgun charger, at about the same
age, and the "low voltage" was (IIRC, it was a long time ago) achieved
with nothing more than a dropper resistor. A lesson learned...

And me with an old 18 set, one of these:

http://www.wftw.nl/wireless18.html

I was trying to see if I could isolate a failed audio stage in the
transmitter by tapping a wet finger on each grid cap in turn to get a
'click' transmitted.

It went OK until I reached the PA valve, which had an anode cap ...



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