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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:02:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiA+CUOqSUA8qOXRZ-wPtDnUTpL+mw79AAj-VRaUs8UNQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2OAEw-_m=11ZZRhohj7y37KLjB6HY4S5+BZJEkMnXy03w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd
>> got away with it before.
>
> The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5
> cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was
> the end of that.
>
> Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV
> wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock
> launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air
> and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the
> floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :)

These weren't at the same locale, were they? That sounds like really
electrical ground.

-- 
:wq


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-18 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-15  3:24 [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections Dale
2012-09-15  3:47 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-15  4:21   ` Dale
2012-09-15  5:27     ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-15  6:22       ` Dale
2012-09-17 14:56 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-17 18:48   ` Dale
2012-09-18  6:11     ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-18  7:03       ` Dale
2012-09-18  7:51         ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-18  8:10           ` Dale
2012-09-18  9:09           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-18  9:50             ` Dale
2012-09-18 18:00               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-18 18:30                 ` Dale
2012-09-18 18:52                   ` Michael Mol
2012-09-18 20:19                     ` Dale
2012-09-18 18:55                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-18 20:21                     ` Dale
2012-09-18 21:00                       ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-18 21:48                         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-09-19  0:33                           ` Dale
2012-09-19  2:03                             ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-19 21:49                               ` Dale
2012-09-19 22:09                                 ` Mark Knecht
2012-09-19 22:16                                   ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-19 22:59                                     ` Dale
2012-09-18 10:55             ` Adam Carter
2012-09-18 14:29               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-18 16:17             ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-18 17:02               ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-09-18 17:03                 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-18 18:02                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-18 18:06                   ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-18 18:22                     ` Michael Mol
2012-09-18 18:30               ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-18 18:26             ` J. Roeleveld
2012-09-19  9:36 ` Dale
2012-10-05 10:47   ` Dale

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