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Re: What would a safe robot look like?

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Originally Posted by kamocat View Post
Cool.

I'm still curious about that tape. 3M says Scotch 33 has a dielectic strength of 1,150 Milivolts.
Doesn't that mean one wrap can insulate a 1.15 volt line from ground-potential, and three wraps can insulate a 3.45 volt line? (I am, of course, referring to a DC system)
Interesting. Vinyl generally has a dielectric strength around 1000 volts/mil, varying with details of the chemistry of the vinyl. I suspect that spec should be 1,150 volts/mil, so 7 mil Scotch 33 has a dielectric strength of 8050 volts under ideal conditions. Conditions in use are far from ideal so they rate it for 600V.

Scotch needs to use a proofreader instead of a spell checker.
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