Heck of a read. I can't tell if you're actually looking for answers or if you're subtly trying to tell me you know way more about electricity than I do (if so you're probably correct). On the off chance that was an actual question about the tank I don't think it was mass so much as capacitance, although that might've been what you were getting at.
The safety wombles sound fun. I can kinda agree about access monitors to sealed spaces though: Friend of mine works in aviation and one of his horror stories was about a guy who passed out doing maintainence on the inside of a fuel tank. No one knew he was in there and they refuelled the plane. They didn't find him until the plane landed somewhere else.
No kidding. I really hope he passed out and asphixiated before he drowned. Being sealed up into a small space filling with fuel is nightmare fuel.
Yeah, that sounds like manufacturers the world over. Software is the same: Hard to sell new units if there's no "improvement".
I did just look up capacitance and it seems to be related to energy storage so maybe it doesn't apply as no electricity is stored in a welding cable.
Well, the electrons flow along the cable, but they have to come from somewhere. Ideally something with high capacitance like the earth or your giant metal tank. Assuming I understood your story right of course.
I really have to wonder how much that woman cost the company by the end. What was her qualification exactly?
(post is archived)