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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #45 on: January 29, 2021, 11:36:21 AM » Author: alexd120
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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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #46 on: March 18, 2021, 09:25:40 PM » Author: thelightingman
I got shocked when I was trying to change a plug and a switch that were next to each other and I thought they were both off (both things were in the same box) so I was getting the switch out and I went to work on the plug and it turned out that the plug was on a seperate breaker! That hurt. So I turned off the other breaker. Another time, I was switching out a switch for a ceiling fan and the fan was set to low and had been on, so I went and touched the wire going to the fan and it gave me quite a jolt. The best one was when I was running my furnace fan and the wires for the other speeds were exposed and I did not know that they had voltage on them since motors are generators also so I stepped on them and had somewhere from 240v to 480v go through my foot. :o :poof: :o :poof:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #47 on: March 21, 2021, 01:27:27 PM » Author: marcopete87
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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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #48 on: March 21, 2021, 01:28:38 PM » Author: Rommie
Were you wearing an anti-static wristband..?
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #49 on: March 21, 2021, 02:55:19 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Through the neck with a stainless steel 6 way GU10 ceiling fitting!  :poof:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #50 on: March 21, 2021, 03:31:59 PM » Author: desktoptrashcan
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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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #51 on: March 21, 2021, 08:19:51 PM » Author: Joe Maurath, Jr.
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:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #52 on: March 21, 2021, 08:22:22 PM » Author: Rommie
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..?  :mrg:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #53 on: March 21, 2021, 08:23:55 PM » Author: Mandolin Girl
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:
Where can I get some.??  :mrg:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #54 on: March 21, 2021, 08:36:39 PM » Author: Joe Maurath, Jr.
Where can I get some.??  :mrg:

Ahhh, I think they ceased making them for now in order to ramp up vaccine production instead.
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #55 on: March 21, 2021, 08:59:01 PM » Author: desktoptrashcan
Along with the iPad..?  :mrg:

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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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #56 on: March 21, 2021, 08:59:40 PM » Author: Bulbman256
Ahhh, I think they ceased making them for now in order to ramp up vaccine production instead.
 :lol:

think she was talking about the belts! :mrg: :lol: ;D
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #57 on: March 21, 2021, 08:59:43 PM » Author: Rommie
Yeah, sorry, I never was an Apple fan  :mrg:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #58 on: March 21, 2021, 09:01:18 PM » Author: Mandolin Girl
think she was talking about the belts! :mrg: :lol: ;D
Nah, the pillses, they would help me bounce back from feeling poorly...  :mrg:
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Re: What's the worst you've ever been shocked ? « Reply #59 on: March 22, 2021, 01:05:27 PM » Author: f36t8
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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