First Electrocution Experience « on: May 19, 2018, 07:44:51 AM » Author: F96T12 DD VHO
Well lets go back in time to where I was about 6 y/o... There was a dryer plug that was being installed with POWER ON! It was a 4-prong 240V outlet halfway out of the wall with every terminal and I touched it, fully grasping the whole thing. I touch everything but the ground and got 10 sec of 240V in my body and still luckily survived
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #1 on: May 19, 2018, 08:31:50 AM » Author: Cole D.
Well, since you survived, it would be a shocking experience, not electrocution.   I haven't been shocked by AC current thankfully, but I have gotten shocked from batteries before.
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #2 on: May 19, 2018, 10:30:59 AM » Author: CEB1993
Last time I installed a dimmer switch for some spot lights in my parents’ kitchen, I accidentally touched a live wire in the wall box. I forgot to turn off the breaker and the consequence was shocking, haha!  It felt as if my whole left arm was paralyzed, and a powerful and pulsing force was traveling through my arm.
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #3 on: May 19, 2018, 11:37:42 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
Ice been electrocuted by mains more times than I can count. I think the first time I was 6 or something.
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #4 on: May 19, 2018, 11:54:48 AM » Author: F96T12 DD VHO
Quote from: HomeBrewLamps on May 19, 2018, 11:37:42 AM Ice been electrocuted by mains more times than I can count. I think the first time I was 6 or something. Electrocuted or shocked at the age of 6? Same here but I never learned from my mistake as I still (to this day and on) continue to get shocked
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #5 on: May 20, 2018, 11:52:49 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
I've never been electrocuted (obviously since I'm still here .lol. ) but I have been shocked multiple times...most of them from Christmas lights, but a couple from light fixtures too.
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #6 on: May 21, 2018, 04:22:22 PM » Author: Rommie
Let's get the terminology right, shall we..? If you'd been electrocuted, you wouldn't be here now talking about it  Receiving an electric shock is not quite the same thing
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	Re: First Electrocution Experience « Reply #7 on: May 27, 2018, 01:41:37 PM » Author: Mandolin Girl
Quote from: MissRiaElaine on May 21, 2018, 04:22:22 PM Let's get the terminology right, shall we..? If you'd been electrocuted, you wouldn't be here now talking about it   Receiving an electric shock is not quite the same thing   I've been zapped quite a number of times, the first must have been in my early teens I think.
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