Power supply musings

[Buck Buchanan]

At 10:43 AM 6/11/99 -0700, Harry Bissell wrote:
>without it you will be very unhappy. Those amps that have the chassis hardwired to
>"neutral" have no place in my studio or stage use. I insisted my bass player replace
>a Traynor he had with a hot chassis... "before the fvcking thing kills me..."

Hi all,

To this day I've never truely understood *why* the they built so much hot chassis stuff?  It just seems like it's asking for it!  I would think the danger of having a floating chassis (that *could* be hot in a failure) is safer than having a guaranteed deadly chassis if the AC line plug is just turned around the other way.  Didn't everyday appliances used to kill people occasionally?

Can anyone expand on the original rationality behind the hot chassis?  There's nobody using it today....right?

Thanks much!

Buck