I fucking hate electrical shocks

[sakabatou]

My arm still hurts...

[MrSlayer]

1. What did you get hit with and how?

My work partner got nailed with 277 earlier in the week.

[sakabatou]

2. Tried to unplug and external hard-drive

XP

[MrSlayer]

6. Ah. Didn't power down first I expect.

That really only needs to happen once.

[sakabatou]

7. It was powered down.

The wall-outlet though...

[pokerfan]

4. Yikes! Three phase?

That doesn't sound residential.

[MrSlayer]

5. It's not, we're Union commercial/industrial electricians.

Chaos at the end of the job makes for dangerous situations.

[pokerfan]

10. One of the reason I went into electronics

Nothing over 12 volts. Nowadays it's even less. Except that time I was tasked with designing a CCFL power supply. Shocked the hell out of myself with that circuit.

[sakabatou]

8. Three-phase?

What?

[pokerfan]

11. Yeah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power

[sakabatou]

12. i don't fucking know

I was in my home when I got shocked.

[MrSlayer]

14. You don't have three phase in your home.

You have single phase 110/220. You got hit with 110, which kills more people than any other voltage.

[conscious evolution]

17. Yep

More people do die from 110 vac than any other voltage.Mainly because 110 vac is more accessable to the average joe than higher voltages.
Also,electricians tend to build up a sense of contempt for little ol' 110 after working with higher voltages.

Very few homes have 3 phase.The ones that do are usually huge mansions that are large enough to require commercial heat/air cond systems and/or commmercial grade kitchens.
Personnaly,I have only seen residential 3 phase service in 4 houses over a thirty year career as an electrician.

[doc03]

3. Talk about shocks, one time I decided

the picture tube on my TV (the old CRT type) needed cleaned and not thinking about it being on I sprayed it with Windex and when I started wiping it off it hit me it was like being hit with a ball bat.

[sakabatou]

9. OW!

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I once got 20,000 volts or so

But the amperage was next to nothing, so I barely felt it.

I was adjusting the ignition timing on my car — had my hand on the distributor cap and something arced. One second I was leaning over the fender and the next I was on my butt. I don't remember falling back, just being on the grass.

[IDemo]

25. You can get 20kv or more by walking across the room and touching a doorknob

But very low current, obviously.

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. I had a copycat ready

until I actually read your post... I hope that you're well. I've taken AC in one hand a few times. It is always highly unpleasant :(

[wartrace]

16. I have you all beat- Lightning strikes REALLY get your attention.

When I was a kid at scout camp the tree next to our picnic table was hit by lightning. The table had metal legs, I was sitting on a bolt. It went in my foot & out my buttocks. It threw me about 15 feet away from the table, I couldn't feel my leg for a while, spent the night in a hospital & had third degree burns on my toe & butt cheek.

[conscious evolution]

19. Blew your ass off,huh?

Ouch.

[sakabatou]

21. DUzy!

[rcrush]

20. So you really do crap thunder and fart lightning?

[Orrex]

24. You should have turned the other one

Yikes!

[conscious evolution]

30. lol!

[DarkTirade]

18. You have to watch out with those things...

:yoiks:

[sakabatou]

22. Watching too much hentai, hmm?

[DarkTirade]

23. I have no idea what you're talking about...

O8)

[sakabatou]

27. Riiiiight...

Android girls... sex... only in hentai or cheesy sci-fi films will you see that.

[DarkTirade]

28. I have no idea what your'e tentacle about, honest.

... err... I mean talking about. Damn Freudian slips...

[sakabatou]

29. LMAO

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

26. I once watched a guy short a 220v arc welder across his upper body.

Accidentally, of course. Good thing he was strong as an ox- it didn't even knock him out! But he DID move kinda carefully the rest of the afternoon...