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Posted by Matt Whiting on June 13, 2005, 9:03 pm
HeatMan wrote:
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>>>>This is Turtle.
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>>>>No , on top of a school where they had a Diconnect box with 230 volt 3
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>>>phase and
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>>>>the help hooked on to two hots with alligator clips and sawed about 1
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>>>inches. I
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>>>>do all the hooking up from that time on.
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>>>I did that to a vaccumn pump once. It didn't let out the magic smoke,
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> but
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>>>didn't pump too well. As soon as I realized what I had done, and that
>>>didn't take too long, I corrected the wiring. It's still running years
>>>later.
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>>Saws, computers, and most appliances run on smoke. When the smoke gets out
>>they stop running.
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> And there ain't no way to get the smoke back in...
It all depends on where the smoke leaked out. Often it leaks out
through a capacitor, resistor or inductor which can be replaced.
Plugging it back in again refills it with smoke and it will work again
as long as you really did get the leak plugged. :-)
Matt
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