Ever had an electric shock

[Alchemist]

Tell us your stories. Knowing my luck there will be someone on
here that has survived a 25 KV shock

[My Kitten]

Not had an electric shock as such but when i was little I did grab my dads soldering iron and it was falling onto the floor. Seemingly I was a little upset.

[Sharon]

As just mentioned elsewhere - i get and give shocks to everything... the older I get the worse its getting. Sparks literally fly!!

Never had a PROPER electric shock though...

[Alchemist]

Have had a few accidents, mostly with 240V circuits. It's bad when
you get the cramp in your arm. Always work with one hand in your
back pocket, that's my advice.

For those silly enough to charge up a capacitor, have a look, but
I don't think it's too portable

http://www.no1derland.com/capa1.htm

[DMcNay]

Touched the contacts of a lamp that had no bulb in it accidentally once.

I flew across the (admittedly small) room. Not sure if that was the shock or me leaping back in pain and surprise, though.

Hurt like fuck.

[Alycidon]

Reminds me of being a first year apprentice at Mossend Engineering Works and doing our basic electrical practise. We would ues a "Wee Megger" to test circuits and it became a regular dare to hold the two terminals while someone tried to turn the handle as fast as possible. If you held on you just got a mild tingle but if you chickened out and let go it was bloody sore.

[Alchemist]

O yeah








Friday's pub experience....








I'm bringing along a prop..........








Be warned..................................









Be very scared, by very scared..........................................................

[Apollo]

I have too much respect for our 240 V supply, so the closest I've usually been is when working on customer's unearthed equipment, signalled by the buzz in the fingertips.

Many years ago I found out how to empty a room (and discover who your REAL workmates were). I'd set up a small test lab, and had to teach them how to use the kit. The last test was 600 V and the calibrator hadn't de-energised after the last test. I picked up the unit under test, and discovered it still had 600 V applied. Needless to say, it was quickly thrown down, landed on my lap, and got booted across the room. When I looked up, I was alone, and all my (former) colleagues were watching from a window in the next room

The real stuff is not to be taken lightly. I learned one of my former workmates (in his early 20's) was found collapsed beside an RF drying machine he had been working on, It was basically a microwave that dried the adhesive binding of diaries. The investigation found two pinholes, one in his heel and one in his elbow, and concluded he had brushed against the source while it was active. A momet's carelessness.

[Seamey]

I once worked in a lab testing the effects of static electricity. One experiment was testing the effects of passing a 10,000 volt spark from a human to earth through a gas flow of either hydrogen or methane. As a lowly lab technician it was sometimes my job to be the one that was charged up. Sometimes I'd be charging up the other technician, but if we got the synchronisation wrong, you'd end up with 10,000 volts passing straight to earth through your heart.

I know this is about to sound like my dad was poorer than your dad and we used to have to live in a swamp but it's all too true.

Anyway the nasty bugger is 3-phase current as used in stages and industrial units - it can through you across the room. I know this only to well.

All this and perhaps the reasons for my avatar is clear now

[mrlipring]

I'm sure i've told this story before, but it's great, so i'll trot it out again.

9v batteries. The smoke detector ones.

They give you a tingly tongue when you touch both the + and - to your tongue.

When i was little, god only knows what came over me, but i did that to my eye. I really can't explain that kind of stupidity.

Anyway, i went blind overnight, and was terrified to tell my parents in case i got battered for being so stupid.

It was fine by the morning, but i wouldn't advise it.

[Sharon]

I thought that was going to explain the eyebrow

[paladin]

I used to get regular electric shocks until I got one of them Powercard meters installed........no credit in/no power out. Sorted.

[Alchemist]

Don't stick your tongue across a PP3
Is that battery dead, well I'll just stick my tongue across the
terminals, prefer to test it with a multimeter myself.

3 Phase circuits, I'll run for cover, or should I say will watch
from behind the window

[james73]

I thought that was going to explain the eyebrow

James H

[duncan]

a few small shocks off electric fences in the past (insert joke here).

when i was about 12, there was an arcade machine in the hotel down the road, and the back was loose off it. there was a plastic knob inside that you could turn to adjust the contrast, although god knows why we'd want to do this. in my natural inquisitive state, one time i decided to grab a different round thing inside to see what that did. cue hefty electric shock which burned a hole in my thumb, and not much sympathy for my stupidity from my 'mates'.