Re: Complete destruction if the Geeks perfectly good p133...

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Original poster: "Alan Yang by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <megavolt121-at-mediaone-dot-net>

The Computer didn't fry because it is a faraday cage. If you take a look at
the powersupply, it has metal to metal contact with the frame of your case.
Now pop open the power supply and you'll see that the ground is grounded to
the power supply case, which in turn grounds the case. Wala, now you have a
faraday cage:)

-Alan


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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: Complete destruction if the Geeks perfectly good p133...


> Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>
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> Hi all (esp. chris)
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> I had a look at the pics from the geek frying that poor old PC... I am
very
> impressed, and I have a couple of questions, and a theory...
>
> Theory - why the motherboard didnt die when it was hit with arcs - the
> capacitance between the ceramic casing of the chip and the air, and the
> board and the air caused the skinn effect to take place, making the
> electricity shoot over the surface of the board/components to the grounded
> case, not damaging it. Dont ask me about the reeboot thou :)
>
> Question - What dod you plug the computer into? It seems pretty daft to
plug
> it into the mains when you have a million volt arcs hitting the thing...
>
> Question 2 - I have a pretty pants computer and wouldnt mind one that
could
> take million volt arcs  and still work - who was the computer made by?
Just
> to show how well it must have been built...
>
>
> Jason
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