On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:13:00 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:51:19 GMT, ah wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:14:41 +0100, Twisted Ant wrote:


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news On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:44:33 +0100, Twisted Ant
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news On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:31:42 +0100, Twisted Ant
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news On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:47:20 GMT, ah wrote:

How?

Big amp. Input to amp came undone (parrot chewed wire), pickup
of
mains
hum - very loud low frequency sent to tweeters for some reason.
Burning
smell, then smoke and a little flame.

Scorched parrot me thinks.

They like electricity. One chewed the flex to the fishtank light
and
exposed the live wire. Didn't seem to stop him! Mind you it may
have
been
a different story if he got the nuetral in the same bite....

Don't let them lead the orchestra, they are obviously not good
conductors.

Have you ever touched a live wire on it's own? It just tickles.

Nope, dont plan to, not until I trust what you say a bit more.

I'd start with DC, first.

AC is safer.

All things being relative, DC is rarely on par.
--
ah