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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:48:38 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM>
Subject:   Re: your mail 
Message-ID:  <2266.1064854118@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:20:24 PDT." <20030929091727.Y52567@carver.gumbysoft.com> 

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In message <20030929091727.Y52567@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:

>Well this might be the source of problems.  I've expressed caution at
>doing this sorrt of thing before since getting the grounds equallized can
>be tricky.  If the ground levels become unequalized, or worse you get some
>sort of ground loop going, you could damage your hardware, or cause Wierd
>Untraceable Problems.

...
not to mention escape of magic smoke, and in truly worst case:
permanent tax-exemption.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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