Reply to post: Re: Bee-sting ?

Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth

jake Silver badge

Re: Bee-sting ?

The unit was always called a vampire tap, yes.

However, I knew quite a few network engineers who called the tap's probe a stinger. I tried to get them to knock it off because we were often discussing three-phase power in the same conversation, but to no avail. Perhaps it's use here is an artifact of this nomenclature?

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