13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
3:14 p.m.
Jim Beacon wrote:
But the engineer is protected by an open resistor - there is no path to
ground for a potentially fatal shock form the mains. The risk of static
damage is always secondary to the risk of a fatality. Remeber, the worst
case shock is one where the current passes through the heart, which is a
huge risk if one hand is connected directly to ground by a short
circuit.........
And the static will probably leak away through the body of the resistor
*anyway*.
Gordon.