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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    Fault went away when I put the old tube back. Unfortunately, the old tube has given up the ghost. New tube and starter will arrive sometime this week (tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday).
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    Was kind of hoping that as it is a 4ft tube that it may be a part from a light sabre. Definitely was feeling the force yesterday.
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    Not sure about charging a phone but wished I'd have taken some video of it, I may have a go when the new tube turns up and put in the old tube before putting in the new tube. For comparison, the later incident when I was wearing marigolds reminded me of touching an electric cattle fence...
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    I used a volt meter to read the voltages by putting one end on the cloth and the other to the back of the microwave which is earthed to a main socket. The cloth was producing or had 80-90v AC going through it. The screw mentioned in my OP I read using same volt meter at again 80 to 90 volts...
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    Nope. I've ordered another tube and starter so hope that's the problem sorted.
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    I've put the old tube back in and the problem has gone away but the old tube is on it's last legs. The kitchen does get humid but I'm not sure if that explains why I was getting a shock off the damp cloth whilst it was in my hand. Can only presume the tube was inducing a current through me as...
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    It's gone a bit Mulder and Scully as the light seems to be inducing currents in metal objects. A knife on the kitchen worktop has a voltage but should be isolated from any electrical source as the kitchen worktop is laminate (I think).
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    Calling electricians. Have a strange problem with the kitchen light

    Having a strange day so far due to the kitchen light. Kitchen light is a long fluorescent tube and it appears it's making items in the kitchen live. First noticed it this morning when I went to pick up the kitchen cloth, which is damp. Got what I thought was a static electric shock but every...
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    Anyone on virginmedia having trouble connecting to overclockers.co.uk?

    I'm on VirginMedia and since about 7.00am today I've not been able to get on to forums.overclockers.co.uk or www.overclockers.co.uk. Getting a couple of errors the most common one being "This site can't be reached www.overclockers.co.uk unexpectedly closed the connection".
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    Filmwise Invisibles

    http://www.filmwise.com/invisibles/invisible_992.shtml
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    What retro things have you done today?

    Can you put a link to the auction as I'd be interesting in bidding on the graphics card.
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    my very own ebay thread (terrible like all the others)

    Sounds like a seller I bought from. Won the item before Christmas and seller had put an arrival date on early January. Early January came and went, so I emailed the seller who got back to me to say he had forgot to send the item and would do so immediately. I then got an email saying that the...
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    Filmwise Invisibles

    Posted as Team OCUK
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    Filmwise Invisibles

    http://www.filmwise.com/invisibles/invisible_985.shtml
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    Hypothetical question... Giant CPU

    This site, https://monster6502.com/, describes building a 6502 out of discrete components. Scroll down and they give an example of building an Apple A8X CPU found in the iPad 2 would be 286m square. Wouldn't mind buying the 6502 version.
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