Has anyone ever received an electric shock ?
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Has you ever recived a electric shock before?
A few months ago at college after we had wired a lighting circuit our lecturer received a electric shock when he showed the students where you place the lightbulb and stuck his finger in the bayonet light fixture not realizing that the power was on. Thankfully with no serious issues just a class of students laughing at him.
A few months ago at college after we had wired a lighting circuit our lecturer received a electric shock when he showed the students where you place the lightbulb and stuck his finger in the bayonet light fixture not realizing that the power was on. Thankfully with no serious issues just a class of students laughing at him.
Edited by Mattrm77 on Tuesday 25th December 22:11
Yes, and I can honestly say that I think it's the most uncomfortable feeling anyone can ever feel. I have quite a high pain threshold with most stuff (especially hot things) but I really do hate the feeling of an electric shock, to the point that I'm even squeamish of receiving a static electric shock. I recently leaned on an electric fence and my arm and ass tingled for the rest of the day.
I was in the Stage & Lighting Crew at school.
Wiring was largely done with bare wires and shoving unwired plugs into sockets to make the circuit, regularly resulting in shocks, especially when we didn't bother putting the backs on the plugs.
Nowadays my son has a Scholarship in the same thing, and there is alot more Health & Safety, but still plenty of potential to remember the power of electricity.
Yes a few. Onesticks in the memory as it lasted what seemed like forever when I was changing a single socket for a double in my old house.
I’d even taken the precaution of tripping the circuit breaker marked ‘sockets’ only to discover post shock that there’s was another one at the end of the unit marked ‘upstairs sockets’.
My arms and chest tingled for hours.
I’d even taken the precaution of tripping the circuit breaker marked ‘sockets’ only to discover post shock that there’s was another one at the end of the unit marked ‘upstairs sockets’.
My arms and chest tingled for hours.
Got one from an old CRT type TV. That hurt more than a 240 belt and for longer.
110v I can pretty much tolerate, pretty thick skinned it seems, same as electric fences don’t ’phase’ me. Work on 415 AC and up a lot - very, very careful with those.
Thing I have most respect for is DC. Work a lot on inverter drives/welders. You tend to ‘stick’ to dc. Ouch.
110v I can pretty much tolerate, pretty thick skinned it seems, same as electric fences don’t ’phase’ me. Work on 415 AC and up a lot - very, very careful with those.
Thing I have most respect for is DC. Work a lot on inverter drives/welders. You tend to ‘stick’ to dc. Ouch.
got one a few hours ago, boiler timer stopped working with no supply to it, fiddling around and it became live again. Must have thick skin as all it did was tingle my finger a bit.
Compared to a 250DC from a high current system (not one of these high impedance HV things)
was like being hit by a big stick.
Used to work with equipment upto 400,000V at 600MW and you were very careful when operating the manual isolators and putting it on earth.
Compared to a 250DC from a high current system (not one of these high impedance HV things)
was like being hit by a big stick.
Used to work with equipment upto 400,000V at 600MW and you were very careful when operating the manual isolators and putting it on earth.
dfen5 said:
Got one from an old CRT type TV. That hurt more than a 240 belt and for longer.
110v I can pretty much tolerate, pretty thick skinned it seems, same as electric fences don’t ’phase’ me. Work on 415 AC and up a lot - very, very careful with those.
Thing I have most respect for is DC. Work a lot on inverter drives/welders. You tend to ‘stick’ to dc. Ouch.
I did that working on a 21" CRT - took off the HT cap and moments later saw a blue jagged line meet my hand. It hurt a bit!110v I can pretty much tolerate, pretty thick skinned it seems, same as electric fences don’t ’phase’ me. Work on 415 AC and up a lot - very, very careful with those.
Thing I have most respect for is DC. Work a lot on inverter drives/welders. You tend to ‘stick’ to dc. Ouch.
It just reminded me of the time I turned off a standard lamp (not at socket) to disassemble the thing and of course used my arm as a connector. All I remember is a 'blue' feeling and 'brown' smell having ending up about 5 feet away.
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