7 Jun
2010
7 Jun
'10
1:41 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Though I usually cut from the end down, and try to insert my blade in
between where the inter cables are, then peel back and cut round with
the wire cutters.
It was stripped both ends, and raged, I guess as he plugged it in the
wires dragged along the bench and shorted and of course when switched on
aforementioned flash-bang !
Andf I wasn't joking when I said he was the class brain, constantly came
top in class tests, he just I guess did this on auto-pilot, or was
distracted and made an ummm error of judgement :)
Cheers.
Phill.
--
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
Reminds me of
when we where learning to wire plugs in Physics when I was
You were actually taught something useful at school? I am amazed...
at school (about 14/15). We where given about a
foot of cable, stripped
at both ends and a standard 3 pin plug and screwdriver. We pretty much
Hmm.. Actualyl stripping the cable tends to be the hardest part ot do
right. It's very easy to 'nick' the insulation on the inner wires when
cutting off the outer sheath. The next trick you'd miss if you have pre-stripped
cable is the correct
length of the wires. The earth wire shold hace the most slack, so if the
cable clamp fials and the cable is pulled out of the plug, the earth
breaks last.
Indeed Live : shortest, Neutral next, Earth (if it's a 3 wire cable)
longest. This was one of the things we where being taught.
all managed to
wire the plugs correctly, which was good. What wasn't so
good was that the class brain also plugged the thing into the socket and
hit the on switch.......at which point there was a loud bang and a flash
Waht had he done with the 3 wires at the other end of the cable? Shorted
them together?