: Martin Brown
: Your "qualified" electrical engineer may have scraped a pass in an
: exam a couple of decades ago but I can think of some that I would not
: let anywhere near my own fuse box. I once had to administer hot sweet
: tea to an ashen grey electrocuted US service engineer who forgot that
: UK mains was 240v and tested for live with moist fingers! Another
: plunged the entire site into darkness by dropping a spanner into the
: wrong place!

Clearly, warning lights are flashing down in quality control.

However, I'm more wondering whether there's some conflation betrween
"electrical engineer" and "electrician" going on here. Sort of like
the difference between opthamalogist and optician, except more with
electrons than photons. But... maybe not.

Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw