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Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring

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I know of someone who did that in a telephone exchange, but it was across the 48v DC busbars.

Spanner vanished noisily in a cloud of steel vapour, two large bites were taken out of the busbars. Telephone exchange continued working happily as if nothing had happened. Sparky had to change his underwear, though.

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