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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:39:36 AM EDT
It hurts.
Got bit twice before yanking the breaker 
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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:44:29 AM EDT
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Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120?
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:44:31 AM EDT
[#2]
I trust your advice is grounded in reality?
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:46:09 AM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:46:56 AM EDT
[Last Edit: pale_pony]
[#4]
Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: It hurts. Got bit twice before yanking the breaker Glad you made it I just came off a death investigation of a 32 year old mildly obese electricians apprentice who got "tickled" but it caused atrial fiberlation and he didn't make it The boy jibbered some last words to an office secretary about "Did you turn those lights off" while he was already dead and didn't even know it yet . He left a new wife and 3 year old child 
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:48:12 AM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DieselEngineer: I trust your advice is grounded in reality? I'm just happy that it's based on current events. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:48:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MethaneMover: Unless he went line to line, the same. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:49:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MethaneMover: Unless he went line to line, the same. Shock severity is not really voltage dependent; more to do with the moisture of the skin. Saltwater(sweat) is a good conductor. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:53:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:55:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MethaneMover: Ouch. Water well issue? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:56:32 AM EDT
[#10]
Glad you’re ok but yeah don’t do that.
<————-electrician |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:04:21 AM EDT
[#11]
Hertz, don't it...
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:10:04 AM EDT
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MP, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:11:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: AC compressor start cap I leaned my sweaty forehead onto one of those on a rooftop, once. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:12:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: AC compressor start cap Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap  Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:13:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: AC compressor start cap Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap That’ll kill yah if you don’t discharge it properly. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:14:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dtux: Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dtux: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?Yup, but I was getting on stuff with my meter and clearing out the cobwebs and dirt |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:14:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dtux: Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dtux: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?Even when removed, they keep stored energy that can kill you if not discharged. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:23:29 AM EDT
[#18]
Ugh .... I hate electricity. Voodoo I say. And a 3 way switch is the devil.
Worst I got was getting zapped and thrown across an elevator MER. 440DC...that was NOT fun. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:29:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol You should reflect on that.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:37:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: NotIssued]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pale_pony: Glad you made it I just came off a death investigation of a 32 year old mildly obese electricians apprentice who got "tickled" but it caused atrial fiberlation and he didn't make it The boy jibbered some last words to an office secretary about "Did you turn those lights off" while he was already dead and didn't even know it yet . He left a new wife and 3 year old child Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pale_pony: Glad you made it I just came off a death investigation of a 32 year old mildly obese electricians apprentice who got "tickled" but it caused atrial fiberlation and he didn't make it The boy jibbered some last words to an office secretary about "Did you turn those lights off" while he was already dead and didn't even know it yet . He left a new wife and 3 year old child You want to explain how Afib caused that? Or so you mean V fib? Cuz one, old people walk around with all day. And the other, they walk about 10 steps. Originally Posted By Zoomer302: Ugh .... I hate electricity. Voodoo I say. And a 3 way switch is the devil. Me too. I understand the basics of how it works, and that's enough to know I don't know. I kill the whole house to change an outlet (the extent of my DIY with electricity). |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:38:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Moyockgunner]
[#21]
Working in the yard one evening trying to get ready for my sons wedding rehearsal BBQ I was close to being finished, had to pee and didnt want to stop and go into the house. Hey its my yard, nearly 2 acres of secluded wooden lot. No way anyone can see so I walked over to the side of my garden shed and whipped it out and pee'd on an old piece of Romex that was hidden by a couple of bricks. At the same time my wife was walking out to tell me dinner was ready. She said she saw me whipping the pocket monster out was was about to yell and scare me when she said I started making the Gawd Awefullest noise she gad ever heard come from a human, watched me bolt straight up to attention, kinda vibrated a little bit and fell over backwards with my back arched, me still holding my "member" shooting a stream of urine up onto the roof of the shed. She ran over and still not sure what was going on thinking I was stroking out or worse to me peeing all over myself...and her. I was stunned pretty good.
Never, never EVER URINATE ON A LIVE WIRE. I went in and found the unmarked breaker and marked it. Then installed lights on the garden shed. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:41:18 AM EDT
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I have never been hit by 240 volts or a start cap but 277 volts is very unpleasant and that 660 volts from a light ballast did a real number on me. Knocking me out and temporary blindness were just a couple of things it did to me
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:41:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Moyockgunner: Working in the yard one evening trying to get ready for my sons wedding rehearsal BBQ I was close to being finished, had to pee and didnt want to stop and go into the house. Hey its my yard, nearly 2 acres of secluded wooden lot. No way anyone can see so I walked over to the side of my garden shed and whipped it out and pee'd on an old piece of Romex that was hidden by a couple of bricks. At the same time my wife was walking out to tell me dinner was ready. She said she saw me whipping the pocket monster out was was about to yell and scare me when she said I started making the Gawd Awefullest noise she gad ever heard come from a human, watched me bolt straight up to attention, kinda vibrated a little bit and fell over backwards with my back arched, me still holding my "member" shooting a stream of urine up onto the roof of the shed. She ran over and still not sure what was going on thinking I was stroking out or worse to me peeing all over myself...and her. I was stunned pretty good. Never, never EVER URINATE ON A LIVE WIRE. I went in and found the unmarked breaker and marked it. Then installed lights on the garden shed. Impressive you pissed onto the roof while laying on the ground |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:45:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Impressive you pissed onto the roof while laying on the ground Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By Moyockgunner: Working in the yard one evening trying to get ready for my sons wedding rehearsal BBQ I was close to being finished, had to pee and didnt want to stop and go into the house. Hey its my yard, nearly 2 acres of secluded wooden lot. No way anyone can see so I walked over to the side of my garden shed and whipped it out and pee'd on an old piece of Romex that was hidden by a couple of bricks. At the same time my wife was walking out to tell me dinner was ready. She said she saw me whipping the pocket monster out was was about to yell and scare me when she said I started making the Gawd Awefullest noise she gad ever heard come from a human, watched me bolt straight up to attention, kinda vibrated a little bit and fell over backwards with my back arched, me still holding my "member" shooting a stream of urine up onto the roof of the shed. She ran over and still not sure what was going on thinking I was stroking out or worse to me peeing all over myself...and her. I was stunned pretty good. Never, never EVER URINATE ON A LIVE WIRE. I went in and found the unmarked breaker and marked it. Then installed lights on the garden shed. Impressive you pissed onto the roof while laying on the ground Its easy I guess when every muscle in your body is contracted at the same time. There was a wet spot all the way up the siding...she raffed... |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:46:57 AM EDT
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240? Live? Barefoot?
Goddamn, son, I'm not even that stupid. You coulda kilt yo'self. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:48:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JarheadPatriot: 240? Live? Barefoot? Goddamn, son, I'm not even that stupid. You coulda kilt yo'self. I think I was having a heat stroke from lack of AC |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:49:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zoomer302: Ugh .... I hate electricity. Voodoo I say. And a 3 way switch is the devil. Worst I got was getting zapped and thrown across an elevator MER. 440DC...that was NOT fun. Yikes! I’ve gotten hit by 132VDC a handful of times. That sucks I can’t imagine what 440 would feel like. |
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WV, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:51:46 AM EDT
[#28]
Sounds more like WV.
Glad ur OK . |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:54:51 AM EDT
[#29]
Seen a few OSHA faces-o-death videos where barefoot guys in grass drop after turning on vacuum cleaners or pool pumps, etc.
Looks like a nice, quick death. Not a lot of screaming for your family to have to remember. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:58:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dolomite: Seen a few OSHA faces-o-death videos where barefoot guys in grass drop after turning on vacuum cleaners or pool pumps, etc. Looks like a nice, quick death. Not a lot of screaming for your family to have to remember. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 8:05:54 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JosephTurrisi: I have never been hit by 240 volts or a start cap but 277 volts is very unpleasant and that 660 volts from a light ballast did a real number on me. Knocking me out and temporary blindness were just a couple of things it did to me I get 120v regularly but the one time I got 277v i felt it for thirty minutes afterwards. Had a wirenut on a hot wire, but it wasnt on securely and I knocked it off running my hand by it. Ouch. I jumped, and was lucky i didnt fall off my ladder. Little parts and screws from my pouches went everywhere not unlike sonic the hedgehog’s rings. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 8:56:26 AM EDT
[#32]
twice....
 ok that got me a chuckle. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:05:34 AM EDT
[#33]
Don't tempt Darwin |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:10:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: I think I was having a heat stroke from lack of AC Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By JarheadPatriot: 240? Live? Barefoot? Goddamn, son, I'm not even that stupid. You coulda kilt yo'self. I think I was having a heat stroke from lack of AC |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:10:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: Kinda like the Chinese guys pushing the rolling scaffold into the overhead lines... everybody just went limp, looked peaceful enough until they started to smoke. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By Dolomite: Seen a few OSHA faces-o-death videos where barefoot guys in grass drop after turning on vacuum cleaners or pool pumps, etc. Looks like a nice, quick death. Not a lot of screaming for your family to have to remember. Safety stuff from other places is always wild. I find the little animated Chinese ways to die in industrial accidents humorous in a bizarre way. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:10:31 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JarheadPatriot]
[#36]
Quote History |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:31:20 AM EDT
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So you got tickled twice before you thought to yank the breaker?
Fool me once, Shame on you. Twice, that’s all on me. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:32:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: I'm just happy that it's based on current events. Shocking, nonetheless. It’s difficult to resist making jokes, but I think we all have the capacity to try. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 9:58:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: AC compressor start cap Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap Oh, ok. I figured the 240 was for a welder  
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:02:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1975: Even when removed, they keep stored energy that can kill you if not discharged. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1975: Originally Posted By dtux: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By Into_the_Void: Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By anymanusa: Never done that before. How does it feel compared to 120? I may have. I brushed my arm across a relay. That got my fucking attention quick lol AC compressor start cap Do you not have a disconnect at the unit?Even when removed, they keep stored energy that can kill you if not discharged. When used in an AC system?... |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:07:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RIP-Yataski: When used in an AC system?... |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:19:17 AM EDT
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Working on electricity I try and be cautious. Usually shut off all power at home temporarily if needed then test lines for power.
Other day I was at my brothers shop he had live wires that fell out of the emt near the junction box/outlet since material dropped on them pushing off the wall. Shit sparks if hit with anything so it’s a danger. We shut the breaker off the outlet was cold somehow he hit it with something it sparked up. There was another hit wire running to another part that comes from another breaker. We stopped right there he called an electrician. IMO know your skill level if it’s too much call a pro. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:24:20 AM EDT
[Last Edit: perfectsilence]
[#43]
Being bit hurts almost as badly as the subsequent head whack on whatever is above your noggin when you recoil away from the shock
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:24:45 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Moyockgunner: Working in the yard one evening trying to get ready for my sons wedding rehearsal BBQ I was close to being finished, had to pee and didnt want to stop and go into the house. Hey its my yard, nearly 2 acres of secluded wooden lot. No way anyone can see so I walked over to the side of my garden shed and whipped it out and pee'd on an old piece of Romex that was hidden by a couple of bricks. At the same time my wife was walking out to tell me dinner was ready. She said she saw me whipping the pocket monster out was was about to yell and scare me when she said I started making the Gawd Awefullest noise she gad ever heard come from a human, watched me bolt straight up to attention, kinda vibrated a little bit and fell over backwards with my back arched, me still holding my "member" shooting a stream of urine up onto the roof of the shed. She ran over and still not sure what was going on thinking I was stroking out or worse to me peeing all over myself...and her. I was stunned pretty good. Never, never EVER URINATE ON A LIVE WIRE. I went in and found the unmarked breaker and marked it. Then installed lights on the garden shed.  This is why you don’t piss on fences with metal wire, either. Never know if it’s an electric fence. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:31:29 AM EDT
[#45]
I would think you'd never want to work on "hot" 240v, but I am not an electrician.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:32:21 AM EDT
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Worst here, 440, and I was in soaking wet clothes, machine was soaking wet too. I worked briefly in a food processing plant, and the huge machine I was running popped a breaker in it's box, no time to wait for maintenance just to reset a breaker, popped the cover to the box with the electronics and stuck my damn finger in there to push the button and slipped somehow.
Didn't even register as an electrical shock, for some reason it just felt like somebody had run up behind me and kicked me in the small of the back as hard as they could, and I was dis-oriented pretty good for a few minutes. Thankfully it was only a split second and knocked me backwards off the circuit, could have been a lot worse. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:34:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: bootleg15]
[#47]
I got hit by 10000 VDC once. Was working on a high voltage power supply for a Navy ESM equipment, it would only fail after it heated up , so our division officer had us disable the deadman switch and make the voltage check connections on live gear. I should have wearing the big black rubber gloves but they got in the way of making the voltage check, so got rid of the glove. Next thing I saw was a large blue arc come off the top of a huge capacitor, it hit me on the back of my hand and came out my shoulder and burned through a skivvy shirt and a dungaree shirt and back into the equipment cabinet I was leaning against. Threw me back against the bulkhead and left me stunned, with a crater in my hand and another on my shoulder and an arm that didn't work for about 2 hours. Good times. Division officer about shit himself since he authorized everything we were doing. Electricity will definitely fuck up your day if you don't respect it.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:37:27 AM EDT
[#48]
If you are serious,please dont work on electrical in the future. You dont know what you are doing.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:39:40 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dolomite: Seen a few OSHA faces-o-death videos where barefoot guys in grass drop after turning on vacuum cleaners or pool pumps, etc. Looks like a nice, quick death. Not a lot of screaming for your family to have to remember. Are you talking about guys working on equipment, or just some homeowner flipping a switch? |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 10:40:09 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By denverdan: Glad you’re ok but yeah don’t do that. 
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