Dear Dr. Tom,
Myth or IS standards? Intrinsic Safety (IS) is for real and should also be respected in our industry or find something less taxing. You could check your owners manual to see if your cell phone is certified, but I doubt it. An Electrical Engineer would take the worst case scenario and apply it to the design not just most of the time scenario. For example what happens if an out put transistor fails is there a current limiting resistor or fuse in place? What happens if you drop the device? What happens if you change out the battery? Is the case really an explosion proof housing???? I doubt that your diesel Rabbit will make you exempt. For example you fill up at a station that also sells gasoline... Maybe a trucker mixed up the gasoline with your diesel, etc., etc., etc.... Jeff On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:23 -0400, Thomas Reed wrote: > I apologize if I was taken in by an Urban Myth purported to come from > Shell Oil by a good friend. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
