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Subject: Re: TWL: Electrical Problem
From: The Henry's (rlchenry@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 20:59:48 EST
I beleive that those lamps work by you grounding the touch pads through your
body.
There is a very sensitive, open-ended transistor circuit hanging out there
just looking for a ground to make it switch. When you touch it, you ground
the circuit which causes the lamp or mode or microprocessor to switch.
When you are not plugged in to shore power, or the 110V circuit is not
grounded properly, then there is nothing for the transistor switch circuit
to "reference" itself to. You body is a ground, "but with respect to what",
says the circuit!?!?
Hence the intermittent operation when you had messed with the safety ground.
JM2C,
Ray Henry
Tug O War
thebilge.com
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