One critical point about dealing with AC is that in a failure case, the circuit may not blow to create an open circuit. There's a smaller probability esp with a bridge (~5% ?) that the circuit will fail as a short. Thus creating a direct wire to the source of the AC.
On 7/4/13 2:59 PM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
In my country, you won't get into legal trouble telling kids how much fun it is to French kiss light sockets. But that doesn't make it a good idea.
Well said. Also it's disappointing to see this from a univ student where just walking over to another building to talk to some EE power systems guys and get the scoop (and an earful) first hand. There are many older published articles on exactly the circuit suggested with similar caveats to everything said here tho obviously no homework was done, plus disregard for MSDS, that's what I think is the real bummer. diybio is supposed to be self policing to avoid possible future government regulation and I think we just got told "shove it I'm gonna do what I want".
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