"You could fuse the string but that wouldn't
    protect much against personal shock,"

Isn't this a *perfect* application for one of
those "new fangled" plug-in-at-the-outlet GFI
devices?

Or are they only available to us residing in N. America
who use the civilised house-mains voltage of 120 V?

RF Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jinx" <joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: What have you designed using PIC?


> > Maybe I should tell him to leave them turned on!
> > (Or change to a string of neons operating at 2kV)
> > RP
>
> There's LEDs. If you like fiddly soldering and heat-shrinking
>
> You could fuse the string but that wouldn't protect much against
> personal shock, and I don't know if an RCD would pass the
> switching very well. And there's always buying sensibly, ie not
> from, well, you can imagine where they're made and who sells
> them........ There's cheap, and then there's cheap and nasty
>
> A string of parallel bulbs would be better, and then you could run
> it from 6V. I don't particularly like series arrangements.
>
> I remember dad, always slightly the worse for wear after several
> Xmas tipples, doing the annual tradition of trying to find which bulb
> had blown using some very un-Christmassy language. I'm surprised
> Santa didn't come back and nuke us
>
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