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Further tales of an intermittant MGB

To: acg@hermes.dlogics.com
Subject: Further tales of an intermittant MGB
From: brucec@amex-trs.com (Bruce Carter)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 10:51:19 -0700

[... stuff about why the car died intermitantly, deleted...]
An
>>   would die. (I know, current really flows from Negative to Positive,
>>   but what the heck...)

Yes current flows from negitive to positive, but is it hole flow or
electron flow :-) 

>>   As for your hair curling experiment, were you by any chance wearing
>>   rubber- soled shoes? I'm inclined to suspect that you were in contact

Oh yea, they were rubber soled shoes.

>>   with some high voltage part long before you touched the offending
>>   chafed wire, but the current had no way to zap you because you
>>   weren't providing a ground through your shoes, or anywhere else.
>>   However, once you touched the defective wire that was providing an
>>   unwanted ground to the car body, Presto! Or should I say, Ka-POW!

No it's hair by Lucas #:-)

>>   Andrew C. Green Datalogics, Inc.  Internet: acg@dlogics.com 441 W.
>>   Huron UUCP: ..!uunet!dlogics!acg Chicago, IL 60610 FAX: (312)
>>   266-4473

Bruce...


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