Wed, Jan-30-02, 11:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 8,722
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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Aside - On Sparky
The spark to the door had more to do with the room humidity that anything else.
I come form a semi-arid climate and most days I get zapped if I walk just a few feet in our office. On quite a few days I can get a half-inch spark which means about 30,000 volts (I'm an engineer, so I'm easily entertainted). I can get hit hard enough that my arm muscles contract forcefully (don't ask what other things I do for amusement - it's not pretty).
On many days we get so charged up that when we brush by a wall corner we get zapped to the metal corner strip in the wall that is under the paint - with enough of a discharge that it was setting of the smoke detector mounted on that wall about four feet away. We finally moved the detector to a wall above the stairwell where, if you got enough charge to the detector to set it off, the discharge would probably kill you before you heard the beep. At least that was the intent.
Cheers
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