"I got shocked by 120V AC as a kid"
Just once? You must have lived a sheltered life - not played with electricity? Worst shock I've had was over 450v but it was DC (from equipment that was turned off and unplugged). |
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I got 330 once at work
All day every time I touched the door on the lower fridge it felt like it was vibrating. Is already told the boss I thought the compressor was going. Halfway through my shift I had my hand on the steel table next to the fridge when I opened it. It knocked me back pretty hard and I couldn't feel my hands for a minute. Turns out the cord for the grill, which was on the steel table, had a short right at the outlet. Same outlet the fridge was in. -- Drew |
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I've had the usual kisses and love taps from electrical gear at home.
Never at work, though. 3-phase with a 400A main fuse tends to make you ded if you fuck around and find out. |
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Yeah, I got lucky
Both hands were open when I completed the circuit. If I'd been holding anything I'd have probably clenched on it pretty hard. -- Drew |
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Shocking by AC is bad.
I've heard AC voltages keep you from snapping your hand away while DC voltages trigger you to snap your hand away. I once got zapped by a black and white CRT I was trying to replace. That CRT ran at 17K volts when on. The TV was unplugged, but the CRT was not fully discharged. I was holding a screw driver and instinctively tossed it across the room when I got zapped. It's not a mistake you make more than once! :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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That's back to front, and why we switched from DC to AC.
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"What's this little hole inside Daddy's workshop refrigerator?"
Aha, that's where the lightbulb is supposed to be. Did a little dance until I got my finger out of it. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
Track lights that are not track lights, what are they?
- (crazy)
- (12)
- Nov. 4, 2021, 02:18:52 PM EDT
Cable lighting?
- (Another Scott)
- (11)
- Nov. 4, 2021, 04:21:44 PM EDT
Yep, looks like that
- (crazy)
- (10)
- Nov. 4, 2021, 09:40:26 PM EDT
All I see is that it's "low voltage"
- (Another Scott)
- (9)
- Nov. 4, 2021, 09:53:31 PM EDT
"I got shocked by 120V AC as a kid"
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (6)
- Nov. 4, 2021, 10:38:33 PM EDT
I got 330 once at work
- (drook)
- Nov. 5, 2021, 08:50:12 AM EDT
I've had the usual kisses and love taps from electrical gear at home.
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- Nov. 5, 2021, 12:40:51 PM EDT
Yeah, I got lucky
- (drook)
- Nov. 5, 2021, 12:43:45 PM EDT
Shocking by AC is bad.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- Nov. 5, 2021, 11:07:19 PM EDT
That's back to front, and why we switched from DC to AC.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- Nov. 6, 2021, 03:56:46 PM EDT
"What's this little hole inside Daddy's workshop refrigerator?"
- (CRConrad)
- Nov. 9, 2021, 02:15:24 AM EST
Merely using the rails for clamps
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Nov. 5, 2021, 01:05:04 AM EDT
Holy s***, you people are dangerous
- (crazy)
- Nov. 6, 2021, 07:22:23 PM EDT
