[Milsurplus] Definition (Suicide Clips)

[Dave Merrill]

I always use mine with a hospital grade isolation transformer and a VARIAC
on occasion.
Dave N9ZC

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 8:34 PM Jeff Kruth via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Well, this "nickname" Suicide Cord has been around for my 50 some years at
> this. Here is my version: Six foot AC 3 wire line cord, black wire has a
> fuseholder in-line, White and Black leads have aliigator clips with red
> boots on them (red for danger), green wire has black boot. New version has
> white, black and green boots on clips of corresponding wires for easy
> visual ID of which wire is where.
> Easy to hook up AC power to something to test it, but dangerous if you are
> not careful! I usually plug it into a metered Variac so I have on-off
> control, etc.
> Have a few of these around.
> Jeff Kruth
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