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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd |
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> got away with it before. |
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The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 |
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cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was |
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the end of that. |
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Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV |
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wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock |
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launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air |
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and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the |
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floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :) |
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