Re: apologies to the group, and an electrical question

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> On 2008-06-20 cjahn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
>   >>   >For whatever politically-incorrect reason, most
>   >>   >electricians are likely male, and red/green
>   >>   >colorblindness is one of the most common types in men.
>   >> HEy, a place where blind man's techniques are superior!!!
>   >> THough I"m color blind I work around it.
>   >> GUess I'll be thinking about a way to mark camlocks so
>   >> that even the color blind can't screw it up.
>   >The standard is to reverse the ground connection's gender
>   >so it's impossible to hook anything else to it.  It also
>   >makes it stunningly simple to identify the ground, if being
>   >green isn't 
> 
> THink we've got ties set up for that eventuality as well,
> and have seen it.
> HOwever, when we have to do tails I"d just as soon some
> person who doesn't admit to color blindness doesn't do the
> fubar.
> Hence, foolproof marking.  I think the label with heatshrink
> over it is the answer here.


Whatever.  Just be aware that you're going to see a lot (if not 
all) of the equipment rigged with the ground connection reversed.


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