Power supply musings

[Rob]

Gnd lift, as its called, is a switch I dislike very much from my days as a
club audio tech..
I once held a mic in one hand, and reached to change the setting on an old
amp...
Needless to say, I did it while I hadnt had the chance to go take a pee in a
while, so it tried to help me out with that...

Rob

Running to the bathroom.
-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Buchanan <buchanan at qualcomm.com>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Power supply musings


>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
>