Funny read but there's so many wrong assumptions are made in the article.
'ground' is just an idealized concept.
The switch could be connecting ground trace to the casing or make a long antenna
Physical switch has capacitance, etc...
'ground' is just an idealized concept.
The switch could be connecting ground trace to the casing or make a long antenna
Physical switch has capacitance, etc...
> The switch could be connecting ground trace to the casing
This seems most likely - that there's actually a conductive path on one side of the switch from the switch body to the metal frame it's bolted to, so flipping it does take the frame in and out of circuit (doing something like changing capacitance or introducing RF noise on the ground plane which something in the PDP is sensitive to.)
Or Lucas Electric were involved and it had a negative ground.
No come to think of it if Lucas Electric were involved it wouldn't have booted in the first place.