[medge799]

My personal favourite: I ran up an old radio with a ratty old mains lead to see what it would do. It worked sufficiently well that it was worth continuing, so I turned the set off and removed the said lead with a set of snips. Should have turned it off at the supply end, not the radio end! House mains tripped out with a bang, left me shaking with 'what could have been'.

Posting these 'events' here is excellent. We should learn from the mistakes of others was we don't have time to make them all ourselves...

Mark