[Amps] Shock hazard?

[Harold B. Mandel]

There's a composition resistor between the line cord and chassis ground.
This is a
common configuration of several years ago, especially found in 5-tube
radios.

HBM
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:53:36 -0500 Tony King <amps at w4zt.com> writes:
> At 03:50 PM 11/12/2004, Harold B. Mandel wrote:
> >Dear Will,
> >
> >Let's see, the a.c. cord is probably not polarized, so that means 
> the
> >chassis can either be hot or neutral, depending upon the 
> insertion.....
> 
> Looking at the pictures, the line cord doesn't appear to be 
> grounded.  In 
> the 7th picture you can clearly see the line cord attached to a 5 
> lug 
> terminal strip with two of the lugs attached with rivets to the 
> chassis.  The line cord is not attached to one of those. One would 
> hope 
> that the applied line voltage goes to transformer windings. Of 
> course a 3 
> wire cord would help but without it doesn't necessarily mean there 
> is a 
> dangerous condition.
> <snip>
> 
> 73, Tony W4ZT
> 
> 
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