[BC] Knight Kit was Question on Call Letters

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Yes, looking back it's amazing how dangerous they built electronic equipment
in those days.  Connecting one side of the AC line to the chassis was a very
common practice for cheap electronics in the 1950s and before.  Even the
simple precaution of using a polarized plug would have improved safety
greatly but manufactures didn't even do that.  I eventually leaned to use a
neon-bulb to check line polarity every time I plugged something in.  But
it's a wonder we baby-boomer electronic experimenters ever made to
adulthood!   (-;

 - Nat

On 8/9/06, FrankGott at aol.com <FrankGott at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/9/2006 8:09:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> richwood at pobox.com writes:
>
> << Fortunately, I knew something about electricity or I's probably be
> toast. If the polarity was wrong the chassis was hot. The plug wasn't
> polarized.
>
> Programming whenever you could have been breakfast toast if you were
> shocked
> during morning drive.
>
> I used the accessory plug of an old TV booster as an isolation
> transformer.
> It worked.  I stopped getting shocked.
>
> Frank
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