> Jim, while I must agree that the basics of the safety questions you
 > raise are quite relevant and are most valid, still when you come
 > down to it, we do lots of things that others might consider too dangerous.
 > One who wishes to do dangerous things needs to learn all he can about
 > those dangers and how to work with them and what is needed to minimize
 > those dangers to a point where one can live with them.
 JD> That's exactly why I recommended an isolation transformer and a 
 JD> switch to shut things off before mucking around with
 JD> connections. I understand the dangers well enough to know that 
 JD> what you're doing is very risky. You even admit to a few 
 JD> explosions now and then. Maybe such happenings don't bother 
 JD> YOU, but they'd scare the hell outa me.
I'm not that crazy about those ideas either,  and frankly I don't understand 
how it is that he can warranty stuff like that,  not after seeing all those 
junks that I had come into my store...
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