I love elecrocuting myself...

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Beev
About 2 weeks ago I had the back off of my CRT TV to fix it. I went to move it and put my hand under the circuit board that hangs out the back. Zapped the shit out of myself.

You're lucky you aren't dead. CRTs are some of the most dangerous common household items to try to fiddle with.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
You're lucky you aren't dead. CRTs are some of the most dangerous common household items to try to fiddle with.

Flyback output is tiny compared to a microwave oven transformer. You only touch that once. 2kV at 500+ mA WILL kill you!

A CRT will shock you good and most hurt themselves bad from the secondary reaction - yanking their hands out of the box at great speed often needing a trip to the emergency room to get their arms stitched up from deep cuts from sharp chassis parts.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Beev
About 2 weeks ago I had the back off of my CRT TV to fix it. I went to move it and put my hand under the circuit board that hangs out the back. Zapped the shit out of myself.

I gave myself quite the shock playing around with a standalone flyback multiplier from an older TV. It probably had bigger caps compared to today's integrated ones. That wasn't pleasant.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
You never forget the first time your finger slips and bridges the terminals on a fully charged flash capacitor. All other shocks pale in comparison.

Yup, did that once while attempting to take apart one of those disposable cameras. Definately the worst I've experienced.

I did the same thing when i was around 13... Horrid experience.. and I did it twice in 5 minutes.. after the second time I tossed it in the trash and just said screw it :laugh:

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: BigToque

Originally posted by: EGGO
Isn't electrocution when you die, otherwise it's shocked?

You're correct. I even looked it up before I posted.

Saying I got shocked just doesn't convey the appropriate mental image in my mind (even if I'm wrong). To me getting "shocked" is when you get that zap from touching the office door handle. Electrocution seems much more meaningful when used to describe what I felt.

It actually seems weird (and almost wrong) to me that the word electrocution implys death.

That's your problem:

ENGLISH, MUTHAFUC...well, you get the drift, I hope.

Just because it doesn't sound right to you, it doesn't prevent you from sounding ignorant to others, right?

 

[wwswimming]

i've grabbed 115 VAC maybe 5 times just being sloppy in the
old home workshop.

the trick is to let go immediately.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: LS21

Originally posted by: bsobel

Is not the volts, its the amperage that matters

which is , in part , a function of voltage........

ya, but 120v at 15A is a tickle... 300V at what amperage? ive taken 220V at 60A and lived, with just a racing heart. my boss took a 480V 600A blast (it explodes the air) and burned his hands up, gave himself a 2nd degree sunburn on his face and was out of work for months. i think it was 600A at the pump... its a 600A service at least, and the starter feeds directly. hell, im a programmer/ designer so it may be a little lower, but not by much.

It wasn't "at 15A", the circuit was limited to 15A by a fuse or a breaker. You most likely didn't experience anything near even 1 or 2A. Just like a lightbulb may be on a 15amp circuit, it only draws a fraction of that current.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist


ya, but 120v at 15A is a tickle... 300V at what amperage? ive taken 220V at 60A and lived, with just a racing heart. my boss took a 480V 600A blast (it explodes the air) and burned his hands up, gave himself a 2nd degree sunburn on his face and was out of work for months. i think it was 600A at the pump... its a 600A service at least, and the starter feeds directly. hell, im a programmer/ designer so it may be a little lower, but not by much.

220V@60A , you would be toast, literally.
480V@600A ?, you could sweep up the ashes, especially if it was 3 phase.
Remember people are not good conductors, lots of resistance in those connections.

One of the major causes of death from electrocution is that muscles contract when you touch electricity, making it difficult to let go.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Beev
About 2 weeks ago I had the back off of my CRT TV to fix it. I went to move it and put my hand under the circuit board that hangs out the back. Zapped the shit out of myself.

You're lucky you aren't dead. CRTs are some of the most dangerous common household items to try to fiddle with.

I don't think I touched the "bad" part. It felt warm, like when I accidentally touched an electric fence a few years back. It wasn't painful, just unpleasant.

 

[Raduque]

My dad made my hand go numb once by tricking me into holding a screwdriver with a spark plug wire on the end of it near the fender of his 79 camaro while he cranked it to see if it was getting spark.

Ever since that, I don't really really play around much with electricity.

 

[wwswimming]

once i put 48 volts on my tongue to test a toy design for safety. that was
VERY interesting.

 

[T9D]

I did that to an outlet. The light switch was off but the way it's wired (an older way) it still had some hot lines. So I had my leatherman stuck in there to release the wires from the back and the power froze me and started climbing up my arms. I could feel it numbing it's way up farther and farther. Luckily I was able to eventually pull off. I thought 'that sucks but not as bad as I thought it would be'. Until months later it dawned on me that a little ways more it would have hit my heart and I would be dead. The rest of the body can handle it, it's the heart that gets ya. I've been hit with electricity quite a few times before too. Need to be more careful next time.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: LS21

Originally posted by: bsobel

Is not the volts, its the amperage that matters

which is , in part , a function of voltage........

ya, but 120v at 15A is a tickle... 300V at what amperage? ive taken 220V at 60A and lived, with just a racing heart. my boss took a 480V 600A blast (it explodes the air) and burned his hands up, gave himself a 2nd degree sunburn on his face and was out of work for months. i think it was 600A at the pump... its a 600A service at least, and the starter feeds directly. hell, im a programmer/ designer so it may be a little lower, but not by much.

you might wanna check and see if you and you boss are actually zombies

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Anubis


you might wanna check and see if you and you boss are actually zombies

LOL

The old rule is keep your left hand in your pocket when working with live circuits.

 

[Spineshank]

Yea electric fences are 10,000 volts but not many amps.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Ouch. Remember the rule, one hand at a time, dont cross the heart

I thought it was don't cross the streams???

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Oh, I took a power outlet off the wall once and had flipped the wrong breaker. 20 minutes later I could see again and noticed that the screw driver that I used had melted the end off of it.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Oh, I took a power outlet off the wall once and had flipped the wrong breaker. 20 minutes later I could see again and noticed that the screw driver that I used had melted the end off of it.

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