[114848] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Thu May 28 04:08:40 2009
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:07:53 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4A1E45A9.4000402@consolejunkie.net>
From: "Warren Bailey" <wbailey@gci.com>
To: "Leen Besselink" <leen@consolejunkie.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
AC Grabs, DC Pushes.=20
And for the record, I am confident this is the longest thread in the
history of this list lol. Note to self, consult nanog on facility power
when building next datacenter. *laugh*
//warren
Warren Bailey
GCI Communication Corp.
RF Network Engineering
907.868.5911 office
907.903.5410 mobile
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leen Besselink [mailto:leen@consolejunkie.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:05 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Why choose 120 volts?
> It's worth noting that despite higher voltages here there aren't more=20
> deaths or injuries - but maybe it's because people take it more=20
> seriously. Admittedly no one I know is nuts enough to use body parts=20
> for "liveness testing".
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(sorry for being kinda late in this discussion)
I've never felt the urge to do so either, maybe I'm just a wimp. ;-)
But here is a something I've heared from people who do/have or know
people who do have. And usually they are people with a degree in the
field of electronics:
use the back of the hand
don't grap wires, when current passes through your body, muscles
contract and you don't want to hold on to it when those muscles make a
fist or more that arm towards your body. You just want to touch it
lightly.
Just to make things clear, I am NOT going to suggest you should do so,
just telling you what I think I heared.
