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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Careful! A pencil has a conductive core, namely the black part that does the writing. It's graphite, similar to carbon comp resistors. Not good for use around kilovolt high voltages.
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Good point... Anoter fine example of me just needing to shut up... You're right - I hadn't thought about that. I had always used a lamp taped to the barrel from a plastic BIC pen, I guess when I posted I thought that "pencil" would also work. But yes, graphite is conductive, and while I'd hope that the amount of graphite in a pencil should act as a large enough a resistor to protect one from getting zapped(much), it's much safer to just ignore the things that I post
I like to think that I know what I'm talking about, but I guess I don't think about as much as I think... I think then therefore... Oh the hell with it. I'll shut up now.
-Ian