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| I remember when I was really young (around 4 or 5) I went into my dad's work room and he had a desk lamp sitting on the floor with the lamp removed. In all of my toddler's infinite wisdom I decided to reach into it and touch the socket; it felt like a very hot tingling sensation that went up my arms! Of course being that young it hurt very much and later in my life it left me wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences in relation to electrocution?
In another story when I was at college, I remember one of my lecturers telling me when he was working as an electrician, he got zapped at 50 volts DC and it hurting a LOT! I've heard about DC voltage hurting a lot more in the higher amounts compared to AC, so perhaps does anyone have any experiences with DC shock at high voltages? I'd be very interested to know!
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| My grandfather was very good at lots of things (cabinet making, small engine mechanic, carpenter, etc) but he was not very good at electricity. I tried fixing broken Christmas lights with him once, and literally got nowhere.
Now, for the shock, it happened with Christmas lights. In order to get power where he wanted in the house for the Christmas lights, he would use whatever extension cords he could find around the house. If he couldn't find one, he made one with whatever he had on hand. This means he had a couple of "suicide cords" in use (a male plug on each end). He would plug one end in the wall socket and the other end into the female part of the Christmas light string. That left open prongs with 120V just waiting for someone to touch them. You can very well imagine the rest of the story... (I didn't get shocked more than once or twice, however)
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| I touched a live HID capacitor
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I touched a live HID capacitor
Electrocuted by a capacitor?! It must have hurt. |
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| Surprisingly, no. I'm really careful with anything that runs on mains current and unplug before I do anything. I have, however been shocked by a battery before when I touched wires to each end. It felt more like a burn though than a shock.
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Electrocuted by a capacitor?! It must have hurt.
No, surprisingly, it felt like a nice vibration and tingle, but i'll never do that again. Cause if i do, it might stop my heart or something. |
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No, surprisingly, it felt like a nice vibration and tingle, but i'll never do that again. Cause if i do, it might stop my heart or something.
Probably not, but it certainly is a possibility. When handling capacitors please exercise the "hand behind your back" rule and always keep one hand behind your back. |
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Never a proper one, but over in 240 land I can only describe a shock as a very violent vibration within the muscles travelling up your arm! When I say a proper shock, I’ve heard your muscles contract so powerful that you can’t let go of the thing that’s shocking you!, can’t imagine what that’s like other than cramps x 1000! DC is lethal at that voltage however, I remember back in my vintage engine rallying day’s a friend of mine, (I won’t mention his name), had a 1940s generating set where he had his DC dynamo running at 200 volts……...in the rain! He was very quickly told too pack up and was kicked out of the show by H+S!  |
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No, surprisingly, it felt like a nice vibration and tingle, but i'll never do that again. Cause if i do, it might stop my heart or something.
I once accidentally put my hand into the E27 lamp holder while trying on the lamp, and then I felt very numb. |
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| OUCH! I did similar, although it was with a medium base socket. It was one of those ones that has the switch and long plug and i had it off when i did it, It felt like a very light vibration
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| Sadly, I forgot to turn off the switch and then accidentally touched it, so my arm was weak for the next half hour.
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| I've been zapped a number of times, most recently I got zapped by a improperly wired wall mount lamp in a hotel while I was swapping out the bulb, as the screw base was live despite being turned off.
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That sounds like they got some cowboy sparks to switch the neutral instead of the live  |
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