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Re: Sensitive Equipment - =)



Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Chris,

I don't doubt what youre saying with regards to shielding at all - to be
honest I think that its much better to be safe than sorry :)

Can you subscribe me togeeklist??

Thanks,
Jason

> Yes, but Jason, there's a couple things you overlooked :)
>
> 1. During the thon ALL the other computers at the Sigma-6 labs were
shutdown
> and completely unplugged.
> 2. There is a special circuit in my office at Geekhouse with an isolated
> ground (the cool orange plugs) that we installed specificly for the
> half-dozen computers in my office.
>
> I believe firsthand in the power of shielded cases. I was standing up
front
> watching Scott's incredible coil hurling 10 and 12 foot power arcs at the
> computer for over 15 minutes before it finally died (and it had more help
> than the coil to kill it, we had to add an accelerant). Had we kept it up
> like we were we would have killed the coils ballast and power supply
before
> we killed the computer (I believe Scott found ash in the case when he got
> home or something like that, and I felt the searing-hot inductors after
the
> run).
>
> However, I have destroyed computers by wiping a bit of dust off a
> well-charged monitor and then touching a computer case, and the arc there
is
> only 1/4" long!
>
> btw, once we opened the computer, the shielding effects of it's case went
> away :) It survived several hits not only to the outer case, but to the
> naked motherboard as well.
>
> I've really got to post that video on the site, perhaps I'll work on that
> today. :)
>
> duck
>
>
>
>
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