At 07:11 PM 2/9/03 -0500, you wrote:
>For those of you who tend to be careless at times like me - do NOT play
guitar
>and touch the hot wire from mains at the same time. I just enjoyed quite the
>spunky shock since my hands happened to be on the strings while I switched
the
>power on to my transformer (hence touching the hot wire by accident). Didn't
>even think twice about it... just letting those of you know who already
>don't :-)
>
>Jai
>

Jai, you are the first person ever to get me to type: ROTFLMAO!

Not really... but it did just about make beer shoot out my nose.  Hope you
are ok.  I have read about musicians actually being killed by this stunt
falling into a swimming pool.

It totally amazes me that the things are not transformer isolated.  Maybe
they are and it was just some leakage current?

Well, be more careful in the future, Jai.  We need all the 'pic-listers'
we've got.  It would be a shame for this to get around on the net: "Hey,
over there on the pic-list, some guy fried himself playing guitar while
booting some code on his pic gadget.  Stick with Atmel AVR's or SX's and
stay away from those PIC weirdos...".

In jest, Tom M.

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