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. :)
How was the door afterwards? ;) I think the biggest risk is from powerspikes due to bad earthing of the devices. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
