On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd >> got away with it before. > > The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 > cable insertion! It made a little electrical "pop" sound and that was > the end of that. > > Actually, I nearly fried myself once when hotplugging coaxial cable TV > wire into my television while everything was powered on. The shock > launched me -- caused me to launch myself, probably -- up into the air > and against a door, fully upright, from a seated position on the > floor. In case anyone is concerned: the TV was unharmed. :)
These weren't at the same locale, were they? That sounds like really electrical ground. -- :wq
