Re: [LAU] Terrible mic ground noise

From: <jonetsu@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 02 2013 - 00:28:13 EEST

Le 01-04-2013 09:58, Gene Heskett a écrit :

> THE IMPORTANT PART of this msg:
>
> At the lumberyards, like Lowes or Home Depot, in the electrical
> aisle, they
> have shirt pocket sized electrical 'Sniffers" not much bigger than a
> pen or
> pencil. Often their power switch is the pocket clip, you grab the
> end and
> squeeze the clip shut, then the other end has a plastic coated blade,
> and
> it will trill like a canary & blink an LED you can see when that
> blade is
> within 1 to 2 inches of a live wire.
>
> They sell for something in the ten dollar range, very cheap for
> something
> that can save your life by finding hot stuff that isn't supposed to
> be,
> like your refrigerator, often installed within reach of the usually
> well
> grounded stuff of the kitchen sink?

The reply was an entertaining read !

Now if I understood the above correctly, a hot device would be one from
which someone would get a shock by touching it, is it ?

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