21 Jul
2006
21 Jul
'06
5:24 p.m.
And then there was the attempt when wiring up an
outside light where the kid
decided to hook both wires from the light and both wires from the feed up to
the switch. Turned the breaker back on and the light was on all the time,
until he flipped the switch, which popped the breaker, because he had it
going _across the line_.
Unorthodox, but it does work . . . I know for a fact that Silicon Graphics used a similar
system on some machines
(Twin Tower, possibly others) to shut down the power supply if sufficient bits were
removed to impede cooling.
Not sure if it was the same designer . . .