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
next prev parent 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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