<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 07/28/2001 8:28:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
<BR>patchell@silcom.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Boy, we have some evil people on this group....I would never..uh...wait, when
<BR>I was in high school, I stuck a 10 ohm 1/2 watt resistor in the AC outlet
<BR>of the
<BR>power panel the teacher was going to use for a demo. When he threw the
<BR>master
<BR>switch...bammo..... ;^)</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>And I made a similar contraption out of an empty wallwart case with the two
<BR>prongs wired together..great for turning off the power at random in various
<BR>rooms around school.
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<BR>-Chris</FONT></HTML>