[R-390] Power Cable Hack

[Tisha Hayes]

Yea, I kinda like the idea of the GFCI breaker being able to trip. As
opposed to a fuse, a GFCI device is to save my butt from electrocution if I
cross into the mains side of a service.

I had a good friend who died because of a bad cord on a saw. We were 17 at
the time and it left a real impression upon me.

I have gone so far as to replace a large number of breakers in the
distribution panel with GFCI capable breakers. The bathroom and kitchen are
not the only places you can get killed.

It is a real inconvenience to install an old radio like a Central
Electronics 20A and have it trip out the breaker. That forces me to get out
the isolation transformer and play the "find the leaky caps" game. I never
use an isolation transformer in-lieu of fixing the problem.

Putting the line-filter on an insulating sheet to remove it's case from
chassis ground is not a good idea. For all intents and purposes you have
just eliminated any benefit to having the line filter in there at all.

I worked as an EMI/EMC engineer for several years and putting the effort
into modifying product designs to meet FCC specs was very gratifying. EM has
a nasty tendency to take advantage of some of the most innocuous practices
like how many times you put your mic cable next to the line cord or how
clean and tight a connector is.

-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes

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