I Just Electrocuted Myself

[SilentRunning]

R.I.P.

(where do we send the flowers?)

 

[Megatomic]

I've been shocked many times while on the job. Improper tagout of 480V Sullair machinery was the worst event. :Q I also got a big shock from capacitance that had stored a charge on a giant reel of 35KV cable I was testing. It threw me across the test cage and into the wall. I was out for several minutes.

I had followed procedure in both cases, too. The 480V incident caused my company to rewrite the LOTOC procedure.

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I was pulling a Panaflo fan out of my PSU so the PSU casing was open. I was on the phone so I wasn't being careful and grabbed my PSU (plugged in, not on) on the bottom with my thumb touching something inside. It shocked me for a few seconds making my arm shake. I was able to let go and I feel fine but damn! That was one crazy experience.

I've worked inside many PSUs but it's the first time I've ever been shocked by anything in a computer. I know about the dangers and am normally a lot more careful. Don't be like me and don't be stupid. It could have been fatal

Same thing happen to me when I was replacing the 40mm fans on my Shuttle PSU. Got a good jolt from it.

 

[Jeff7]

I've taken PSU's apart, worked on monitors, built a Tesla Coil, and messed around with flyback transformers. I've yet to be shocked.

You're probably lucky that it was just one hand that got shocked, and that it didn't go in one arm, through your heart, and out the other arm. This is why you never try to multitask when working with something that can kill you. If I'm working on a project and someone walks in the room and asks me something, and I'm in the middle of something like that that needs full concentration, I'll just completely ignore them, maybe only saying "hang on." Diverting attention from something like a PSU is asking for trouble - and remember, even unplugged, those things can still be dangerous. Those capacitors in there can discharge their electrical content in a fraction of a second.

 

[jyates]

I hate it when I do that!

 

[stickybytes]

ive been shocked worse before. i was fumbling with some a/v equipment and for some strange reason, either the cable box or the cable wire gave me a electric shock accompanied by a blue light. i actually shook like how you see it in the cartoons for a few seconds.

 

[BentValve]

I used to have a washing machine that had a ground problem...oh yeah loading that bad boy was fun.

 

[rocketPack]

I'm surprised how rare electrocution is... I've been shocked by tons of things.

220V pool pump
220V dryer outlet
110V wall outlet
numerous 12V batteries
etc...

But it's not the voltage that kills ya, it's the current. 100,000Volts can pass through you and not kill you (*note: i didn't say not hurt you ), but even 5v @ 1a is almost guarnteed to be lethal, whereas 200v at 5mA is likely going to be a strong tingle at best. 50mA is considered a very dangerous and is, I suppose you could say, the generally accepted "lower limit" for a "fatal shock". however, they advertise voltage because 500,000 looks more scary than 0.05

 

[BentValve]

Ever played the old everyone hold hands and let the guy on the end get shocked?

 

[t3hmuffinman]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
I shocked myself plugging in a lamp once. My arm shook for minutes, and it felt crazy weird. The same thing happened a week later, so I threw out the lamp.

LMFAO!! :thumbsup:

 

[shintot]

Sorry I'm being dumb.... but:
e·lec·tro·cute
To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

 

[Zepper]

If you had ELECTROCUTED yourself, you wouldn't be writing to us about it - we'd have to read of it in the obits... Now shocked or zinged, that's another story.
.bh.

:moon:

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: Zepper
If you had ELECTROCUTED yourself, you wouldn't be writing to us about it - we'd have to read of it in the obits... Now shocked or zinged, that's another story.
.bh.

:moon:

Ok ok. I electrocuted myself and I'm a ghost talking to you by flipping bits making TCP/IP packets and posting it on AT.

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: Mark R
You should probably have unplugged it first.

Wouldn't matter as p/s charge would hold for days.

If before you open it or even remove it from the pc you were to unplug and then press the power button of the pc. Wouldn't that discharge the capacitors?

 

[imported_Skorpio]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
ahha i got shocked while we were extending the front of the house and wiring the doorbell and my friend dared me to put my tongue on the wires for the door bell.......o man those were good times

LMFAO!

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
I shocked myself plugging in a lamp once. My arm shook for minutes, and it felt crazy weird. The same thing happened a week later, so I threw out the lamp.

LMAO

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: stickybytes
ive been shocked worse before. i was fumbling with some a/v equipment and for some strange reason, either the cable box or the cable wire gave me a electric shock accompanied by a blue light. i actually shook like how you see it in the cartoons for a few seconds.

Do not go into the light.

 

[w00t]

i heard about crt's holding electricity still and same with psu.

 

[beatle]

I've been shocked working on a 100w soldering gun. The little lightbulb was misaligned, so I took the gun apart and attempted to align the light with the gun plugged in. While pulling the trigger, I'd feel this weird sensation. My fingers were touching the exposed coils.

I've also accidentally shocked myself with a stun baton. I was at a gun show and I saw one of the black batons with two probes at the top and a switch on the handle. I held the handle in my right hand, put my left hand on the shaft of the baton and flicked the switch, hoping to see the arc between the two probes. Little did I know that this baton electrified the entire shaft! Somehow I kept my composure and calmly placed the baton back as if nothing had happened. I felt that one for the rest of the day. :shocked:

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
Ok ok. I electrocuted myself and I'm a ghost talking to you by flipping bits making TCP/IP packets and posting it on AT.

Really? Damn. Someone call Art Bell!

 

[dblagent]

I used to live in a house where the shower handles in the basement would shock you a little when you were turning off the water. Talk about a suprise when you first turned off the water! It REALLY hurt you of you had a cut on your hand, arm, or head. I remember after I was in a pretty bad car wreck the first shower I forgot to use a towel to turn off the water.... Oh man! We even turned off the power outside at the pole and could still read something like 6v on the water lines. Never did find the problem, the house was built in like 1890 or so, so wiring and plumbing was not a strong suit of the place.......

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Here is your new avatar

 

[Regs]

I had experiences like those too. Crazy, like you are parallelized for a few good seconds before your arm jumps away from the circuit.

I touched the inside of a broken Christmas tree light when it was plugged in. So if you google'ed how many volts come out of a wall socket - that's about how much went through me that day.

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: dblagent
I used to live in a house where the shower handles in the basement would shock you a little when you were turning off the water. Talk about a suprise when you first turned off the water! It REALLY hurt you of you had a cut on your hand, arm, or head. I remember after I was in a pretty bad car wreck the first shower I forgot to use a towel to turn off the water.... Oh man! We even turned off the power outside at the pole and could still read something like 6v on the water lines. Never did find the problem, the house was built in like 1890 or so, so wiring and plumbing was not a strong suit of the place.......

I guess that's why the current electrical code disallows using plumbing pipes for grounding.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I was pulling a Panaflo fan out of my PSU so the PSU casing was open. I was on the phone so I wasn't being careful and grabbed my PSU (plugged in, not on) on the bottom with my thumb touching something inside. It shocked me for a few seconds making my arm shake. I was able to let go and I feel fine but damn! That was one crazy experience.

I've worked inside many PSUs but it's the first time I've ever been shocked by anything in a computer. I know about the dangers and am normally a lot more careful. Don't be like me and don't be stupid. It could have been fatal

good to hear you are okay.