Re: [NTLK] Stupid things

From: Bograt (bograt__at_talk21.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 00:27:34 PDT


On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 04:00 am, eric engle wrote:

> Though I would never ever put a powerbook charger in
> my mouth - who knows what happens with WALL CURRENT.

It isn't wall current. It is 24 volts, not really all that harmful,
just around ooh 3 times as nasty as a fully charged rectangle battery.
Wall current should kill you really I think we use 240 volts in the UK
so that is nasty, however the earth should sort out some of the problem.

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