Your lighting related electrical accidents « on: September 08, 2022, 05:12:04 PM » Author: HIDLad001
Once I got a tingle from my homemade neon nightlight. Another time, I put a 12V red halogen lamp across 120VAC and it exploded. I was holding it and I am very lucky I didn't get burned, shocked, or glass embedded in my fingers.
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #1 on: September 09, 2022, 01:38:38 AM » Author: 108CAM
I once had a ballast turn into fireworks while it was getting tested.
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #2 on: September 09, 2022, 02:32:39 PM » Author: HIDLad001
Was that the ballast from your Sylvania B2224?
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #3 on: September 10, 2022, 04:06:39 AM » Author: 108CAM
Yes it was
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #4 on: September 10, 2022, 05:44:59 PM » Author: Econolite03
I put a 12V candelabra base bulb from a battery operated candle into a 120V night light then plugged it in. Went pop!
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #5 on: September 10, 2022, 06:17:36 PM » Author: HIDLad001
My incident with the halogen lamp was similar.
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #7 on: September 22, 2022, 02:04:46 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever done was fitting my old 6 spot kitchen lights in the photo, the first one (the one in the photo), I put up with no issues, but at the time I only had 6 LED lamps, so I tested the first fitting and took the lamps out of it to test the second that was going across the room from this one. However I forgot to turn the power off and as I was wiring the other one, so I could be hands free, I had it wedged between my neck!, (a bit like how you would hold a phone while you writing something down)……. ……live wiring and an earthed stainless steel fitting wedge between my neck…….. ……you can guess what happened next!
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #9 on: September 22, 2022, 02:13:41 PM » Author: AngryHorse
Funny thing was, just after I picked myself off the floor, Jo rang me to come pick her up from a Christmas shopping trip, and when I got to her destination the first thing she asked was, “why have you got a massive purple line on the side of your face?”
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #10 on: September 22, 2022, 05:23:16 PM » Author: Econolite03
I’ve been shocked by Christmas lights numerous times. I tried working on a set used outside after it rained and you can guess what happened next.
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #11 on: September 22, 2022, 07:52:08 PM » Author: HIDLad001
Just had a PL fluorescent lamp implode on me the other day. It was the tube from my OttLite clamp lamp, I had already saved the base and starter, but I intended to get rid of the tube. The tube flexed and I heard a pop noise, and the next thing I knew, there were shards of glass all over the ground, so I had to clean that up. Quote from: AngryHorse on September 22, 2022, 02:04:46 PM I was wiring the other one, so I could be hands free, I had it wedged between my neck!, (a bit like how you would hold a phone while you writing something down)……. ……live wiring and an earthed stainless steel fitting wedge between my neck…….. ……you can guess what happened next! Bloody h***! How did you survive that?
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #12 on: September 23, 2022, 02:03:23 AM » Author: AngryHorse
We’ve all spoken in the other thread about what each of our definition of an electric shock feels like, but this one ( through the neck), I can only describe as, “being removed from the step ladder with a baseball bat”!  I laugh about it now but it was lucky it threw me off the ladder away from the fixture, if I’d had been sat down, in a corner say, I doubt I could have got off as lightly?
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	Re: Your lighting related electrical accidents « Reply #13 on: September 23, 2022, 03:18:19 AM » Author: HIDLad001
Often the recoil or your body's action of trying to get away from the live power usually hurts more than the actual electric shock.
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