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From: "Giles Honeycutt" <programmer1@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [EE]: bad oscilloscope?
> By the way, a good example of high voltage stupidity:
>
> http://www.drmegavolt.com/underpages/warning.asp


I wish the page mentioned all the details, Silicon Chip (Australia's only
decent Electronics Magazine now (RIP EA we loved)) featured the article, I
believe the event took place in Sydney, definitely in Australia, the guy in
the pic was under the influence of drugs at the time (GBH or something
IIRC). He was on the LV Stay bar which carried  ABC (Arial Bundled Cable),
which is basically Insulated cables bundled together, 440Vac phase to phase,
240Vac phase to neutral. The power co had isolated them, but were working to
isolate the section of HV cabling. They do not like blacking out whole
suburbs. The Guy had been up there for nearly 3 hours before he made
contact. which is why they had news crews around to capture the event. I
think he made a mention in that years Darwinian awards ;o)

Regards,

Kat.


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