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Re: HV accident (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:44:18 EDT
From: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: HV accident (fwd)
In a message dated 8/6/07 8:48:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Is there really any truly "safe" way of doing what we do? I mean come
>on,every aspect of the hobby has a hazard of some sort and I think that
>The List does a pretty good job of pushing those issues (sometimes to the
>level of sheer paranoia-see archives for Thoriated tungsten for
>example).Perhaps it's time to review some basic safety and maybe we should
>all be looking for alternative methods for discharging capacitors that
>don't use the trusty screwdriver!
Terry Fritz already posted a link to the "official" way to deal with HV
capacitors, and relatively recently:
_http://www-training.llnl.gov/training/hc/HVResearch/Grounding.html_
(http://www-training.llnl.gov/training/hc/HVResearch/Grounding.html)
And see Dave Sharpe's post, where he mentions the NEC requirement for
bleeder resistors:
_http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2001/March/msg00432.html_
(http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2001/March/msg00432.html)
-Phil LaBudde
Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic Improbabilities
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