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Thread ID: 74567	2006-11-27 09:25:00	PC Power-finger Spark	so1fenix (11534)	Press F1

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502454	2006-12-01 20:45:00	Thanks for saying what I was thinking, Billy . . . We all know that at NO time has the Earth ever been disconnected in any way from the socket . This is a case of Darwinian-evolutionary pseudo-babble that, unfortunately has become a quasi-religious statement for some time now . Ultimately it is greater minds like yours and mine that (with a great deal of persistance and patience on our parts), can get intelligent yet uninformed persons to see the error of their silly assumptions . I know it's like pushing a large rock un-endingly uphill . . . but we shall prevail . Anyone knows that the real problem is the Time-Space Continuim that is responsible for this shocking effect, and just goes to show that things are getting a lot more out of hand as time passes without one wit of notice by those who marvel at static electricity (NO! It is not demons or spirits channeling through their ON/OFF buttons . . . although it may seem like that sometimes) . But, I digress . I must now go out and throw fertile clams at the moon .	SurferJoe46 (51)
502455	2006-12-02 01:31:00	Gotta add my 2 cents worth. I too have been having similar problems. My pc sits in the corner of the dining room and since we installed an aircon unit last year I have received heaps of shockingly shocky shocks! The dining chairs are covered in some sort of super static generating material. I sit in one for about 5 minutes and then go to the sink - whack!! Off the sink, off the tap, even off the running water. I mean, these are the "you can see the blue spark" sized thumps - bloody hurts!! So far it has cost me a motherboard - my fault cos I didn't earth myself properly - I forgot and unplugged the pc instead of just turning off the power point, leaving the chassis unearthed. I've also killed an optical mouse as I touched it. Now don't tell me that's impossible - I'm an electrical Inspector and teach electrical theory at the tech - I know the mouse is plastic and it can't happen, but I saw the spark jump from my finger to the mouse, I heard the crack, and I sure as heck felt the whack, and the mouse ceased to function. I have now installed a metal strip along the front of the keyboard drawer which is firmly earthed and touch this to discharge myself before touching anything on the PC. It hurts sometimes but the PC has survived since then :-)	andy (473)
502456	2006-12-02 02:32:00	Static electricity never hurt anyone or anything. It just can't by definition. It has got to move to leap out and get you or your possessions. Now, I don't have NCEA credits in sparks, but I have managed to work it out for myself using logical deduction. They make electricity in power stations, and store it in wires that they hang out all over the place to cure. Other electricity is stored in batteries, which come in many styles. Big batteries are used in cars, small batteries are used in watches. People with less logical minds than mine assume bigger batteries hold more electricity than little ones - WRONG ! ! A car battery just has loose electricity thrown in, a watch battery has a lot of electricity forced in under great pressure, so it needs a steel case. Don't believe this? Consider how long the "big" battery can crank your car and compare this with the 3 to 5 years the "little" battery can run your watch. Elementary. They make 3 kinds of electricity, positive electricity stored in red wires, and negative electricity that is stored in black wires. The positive electricity is used for heaters, fans, and lights. Negative electricity is used for refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and the like. The third type is multi-coloured and used for traffic lights and television. Computers use electricity to run fans and lights, nothing to do with the actual computing business. They use smoke for this, I found this out during a bit of experimenting with my wife's computer. The bread knife accidentally nicked one of the little chimneys that run all over the place in there. This let out quite a bit of smoke, and after the smoke was gone her computer no longer computed. Without the smoke it was useless. Q.E.D. Simple observation enabled me to learn all this, but I am the first to admit I don't know all about the subject yet. eg, though an electric toaster and an electric guitar both stretch wires over a frame and use a bit of electricity, they can't readily exchange functionality. Hope this helps.	R2x1 (4628)
502457	2006-12-02 05:42:00	Other electricity is stored in batteries, which come in many styles . Big batteries are used in cars, small batteries are used in watches . People with less logical minds than mine assume bigger batteries hold more electricity than little ones - WRONG ! ! A car battery just has loose electricity thrown in, a watch battery has a lot of electricity forced in under great pressure, so it needs a steel case . Don't believe this? Consider how long the "big" battery can crank your car and compare this with the 3 to 5 years the "little" battery can run your watch . Elementary . Actually even though all your other parts are correct . . I am ashamed to have to tell you it is not the pressure that is in the smaller batteries . . . as any fool could tell . If you have ever picked up a car battery and then a watch battery, it's the sheer weight of the positive charge that weighs so much . Negative charge is weightless . Car batteries have a lot more electricity in them, as you can now see . Watch batteries, by extrapolation must have many more negative thingy-s in them than car batteries . This obviates the corrosion on the posts of the car batteries after a while . This is the positive stuff trying to get out by defying gravetons and the quark theory, as yet unproven . .	SurferJoe46 (51)
502458	2006-12-02 06:37:00	Ahah! Thanks SurferJoe46, observation wins again. The lack of negative in the car batteries is explained by their use in the comments. A car often gets negative comments, a watch hardly ever. Any theory that can't adapt is doomed to extinction. That is what ruined Newton, he could not explain why the negative reactions to my posts had no opposite even approaching equality. Quark theory need a duck to demonstrate, perhaps the English cricket team could help?	R2x1 (4628)
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