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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,811
    edited October 2023
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    msg wrote: »
    I have done it with coat hangers.

    ^^^^ This is all I read of that.
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  • msg
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    I have done it with coat hangers.

    ^^^^ This is all I read of that.

    That's because you think you can feel the difference between different levels of electrocution.
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 13,104
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    JayMX wrote: »
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    What is the point of this?
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
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    Too bad that wasn't a metal junction box.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited October 2023
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    well, I mean... the thing is...
    as long as you only touch one wire at a time.
    And avoid being grounded...

    Bob's yer uncle! (as our cousins across the pond might put it)

    EDIT:

    PS I know all y'all know this: You can get shocked many times, but you'll only get electrocuted once.
    :#

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    (tip o' the ol' AC yarmulke to our comrades @ ASR for the graphic)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
    edited October 2023
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    I got juiced once while I was demonstrating a piece of equipment to a client. Threw me back about 6 feet, landed on the floor on my back. As I opened my eyes the guy was standing over me. I asked, am I still alive? Very relieved to hear yes. I had a strange feeling in both arms and across my chest. Basically felt like all the energy was drained out of me. Called my boss and told him I
    was going home.

    Never did know the what or why it happened.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,650
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    What kind of equipment and how much electricity was it?
    Guessing you weren't demo'ing the 9V battery tongue check.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    Restaurant equipment. The piece was plugged into a 15 amp outlet.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    AC shocks are awful. I hate that feeling.
    DC is more like getting smacked.


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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 2,687
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    We need a “!!” or a “😳” reaction option.

    Brian

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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,156
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    "It's the volts that jolt. It's the mills that kill"
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,359
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    AC shocks are awful. I hate that feeling.
    DC is more like getting smacked.

    Best to be very respectful to both.

    Tom

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited October 2023
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    yup. The worst thing to do (EDIT: IMO) is to be afraid when working with electricity.
    Healthy respect is essential. Fear leads to mistakes, which can be costly -- and, yes, fatal. :(
    And, yes, of course, being too confident leads can lead to mistakes, too. :|

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  • ken brydson
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  • ChrisD06
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    AC shocks are awful. I hate that feeling.
    DC is more like getting smacked.


    I got zapped when I was like 5 and I very vividly remember it. The shock felt like, well, you know the feeling you get when you eat a super sour candy? Yeah that, but hot, and it pulsated throughout my body.
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 2,687
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    His next post will say it might have been his mind playing tricks on him.

    Brian

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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,811
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    Brands of 12-gauge Romex are all the same.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    Brands of 12-gauge Romex are all the same.

    When in Romex, do as the Romanexes do...
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,427
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    So I'm thinking I'm alone in grabbing the plug wire to check for spark on a motor that won't start? Sometimes the spark would really get your attention, other times barely a tickle.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Our electric fences get my attention once in a while. :/
    Fairly similar to that insistent little bzzzzt of a spark plug wire, at least from my perspective.
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  • OleBoot
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    motorstereo wrote: »
    So I'm thinking I'm alone in grabbing the plug wire to check for spark on a motor that won't start? Sometimes the spark would really get your attention, other times barely a tickle.

    We used to call this the lick and f*ck test when I was a kid and we had motorbikes. Lick finger, put in plug lead and kick engine over. If it worked - f****ck.
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  • smglbrth
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Our electric fences get my attention once in a while. :/
    Fairly similar to that insistent little bzzzzt of a spark plug wire, at least from my perspective.

    Ya, electric fences! The ones we had years ago on the farm when I was a kid were pretty great (meaning they worked for some of the crazy steers we had, with one exception). We called them weed burners. If I remember right, around 3 quick pops and a thick button weed was cut in half. The cattle used to go up to it and try to give it a smell or feel the "humm" to see if it was working. Most of the time they got too close and the spark would jump right at their nose to the sum of about 2-3 inches. My dad used to say people who loved farm animals never farmed. Ah, memories...
    Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • treitz3
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    1 of only 1,935 ever built and this is how they store it? That's not redneck. That's stupid.

    No doubt, Ivan. That's a painful image to see.

    Tom
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 4,384
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    That is criminal!
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  • ken brydson
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