On 10/25/2014 10:17 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 10/25/2014 10:19 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I remember an old-school EE who said he could "taste" a battery terminal and tell you if it was positive or negative. He demonstrated this remarkable feat with a 9-volt transistor radio battery with both terminals on one end. So his tongue closed the circuit between the terminals and you should have seen that battery fly across the room at Mach-3!
Before you touch your tongue to the 9volt battery terminals get a good amount of saliva on the tip of your tongue. That way the current flows more through the saliva instead of your tongue. Still not what I call a really good time but effective to guage the amount of power left in a 9 volt battery.
Course, when I was young I also liked to stick bobby pins I found on the floor in electrical outlets. It tickled.
Har! My first memory as a kid was sticking each end of a bobby pin in an electrical outlet! I can still see the shower of sparks! I must have been about 3-years old. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org