7 Jun
2010
7 Jun
'10
1:07 p.m.
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.
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?
-tony