Re: Re-starting Problem

Cheemag wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:35:33 +0000, Dr J R Stockton
<reply0708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In uk.comp.misc message <erkh9v$chs$1$830fa17d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thu,
22 Feb 2007 16:44:45, Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@xxxxxxx>
posted:

Make sure you're not charged with static - some people leave the
machine plugged in and touch bright metal every 20 seconds or so, but
there is a remote risk of a shock if something's wrong with your house
wiring.

Indeed : I heard of a lecturer at an Ancient University, in an Ancient
lecture theatre, who one day brought in his wife's well-used sewing
machine, plugged it into the ancient bench socket, and received 240 V AC
off the machine, to his displeasure.

Explanation was, IIRC, that the bench, without previous perceptible
problem, had been wired with live and neutral transposed; and the
machine, without previous perceptible problem, had been wired with
neutral and earth transposed.

Nothing wrong with that; standard practice nowadays. (If they
connect the earth at all, that is.)


WTF?

Chris

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