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I got shocked by a fluroscent light the fixture was on when I was replacing bulbs. It was one of the thoses cheap low power f40 t12 ballast. But it hurt. That was another time I got shocked.
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All lighting except LED rules!
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I think HPS, MV, and MH rule! Ban LED instead! ![Exploding LED lamp :eoled:](/Smileys/default/EOL_LED.gif)
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At work: i was replacing a network switch over a metallic table, when i touched the switch and the table (with one hand), i got zapped (70V, some mA) because stray voltage on the table due a defective stereo nearby.
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Were you wearing an anti-static wristband..?
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Through the neck with a stainless steel 6 way GU10 ceiling fitting! ![Mind Blown :poof:](/Smileys/default/Mind_Blown.gif)
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Current: UK 230V, 50Hz Power provider: e.on energy Street lighting in our town: Philips UniStreet LED (gen 1) Longest serving LED in service at home, (hour count): Energetic mini clear globe: 55,394 hrs @ 1/6/24
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The cover fell off of the back of my iPad charger and I got 120V mains through my hand in the middle of the night. Needless to say, that charger went into the scrap pile the next day.
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Over the years I've had a few good belts, alot like a number of other members here have described. Now I take UL-approved rubber pills every morning. That really helps in reducing the pain and sudden jolt from my accidental bare skin electrical shocks ![laugh :laugh:](/Smileys/default/laugh.gif)
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"A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it."
Please refer to www.insulators.info where I periodically post many images of lights and insulators in the group's Picture Poster Gallery. Thank you.
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The cover fell off of the back of my iPad charger and I got 120V mains through my hand in the middle of the night. Needless to say, that charger went into the scrap pile the next day.
Along with the iPad..? ![Mr Green :mrg:](/Smileys/default/mr_green.gif)
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"A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it."
Please refer to www.insulators.info where I periodically post many images of lights and insulators in the group's Picture Poster Gallery. Thank you.
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Along with the iPad..? ![Mr Green :mrg:](/Smileys/default/mr_green.gif)
The iPad was an iPad 3, I still have it but no longer use it. I now use an iPad Pro 9.7 inch from 2017.
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Collecting light bulbs since 2012, a madman since birth.
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Yeah, sorry, I never was an Apple fan ![Mr Green :mrg:](/Smileys/default/mr_green.gif)
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Despite doing a lot of experiments with electricity and electronics (another hobby of mine), I have fortunately been able to mostly avoid shocks. I never had a real shock from mains where I had a direct connection to live and ground/neutral at the same time. Just once I accidentally touched an uninsulated part of an old fuse holder by accident, which caused a tingling sensation, but fortunately I had no low-resistance path to ground. I took that one time as a warning and afterwards I decided to be more careful.
Once I did get a DC shock from a capacitor charged to about 200 V: It was mounted to a PCB, had no bleeder resistor, and I picked up the board with the palm of my hand on the solder side. It was unpleasant but not really dangerous since the current was only flowing within the hand and not through my body.
I did lots of dangerous stuff when I was younger ("playing" with microwave oven transformers, neon sign transformers, setting up a "single-wire earth return" system with about 400 V AC in the garden, ...) but if I had gotten a shock from that, I would maybe not be around anymore to write about it.
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