I had unrestrained unfused 120v mains go from hot, through my right thumb, and straight to neutral. My thumb probably had at least a couple amps go through it for a second or two. It made my thumb clench so much I swear it strained all the muscles on that side of my hand. It hurt a shitload but there wasn't any serious permanent damage done. Just a week with a sore thumb.
Not really a shock, but I also got arc eyes from arcing a bunch of series-connected 9v batteries through mechanical pencil lead to make a carbon-arc lamp. Tbh, I could've been killed as with the amount of batteries I had, it must've been really close to 100v or more. DC has a harder time going through skin, but it definitely was risky.
shoved a pair of nails into a socket/outlet/whatever at grandma's (house built in 50s/60s, okayish condition) when I was a kid, got a jolt and a scare but nothing serious probably, though I remember heart was racing like a fucking formula 1 for a while before I got the nerve to get rid of the evidence and grab the nails from the socket and throw them back into the nail box.
[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;52472080]Got 2,500,000 volts through me [B]from a Tesla coil[/B]. Wasn't a good time.[/QUOTE]how exactly did that even happen
[QUOTE=Joazzz;52474047]how exactly did that even happen[/QUOTE]
It wasn't from the coil itself, but from the capacitors. I was working on it late and forgot to shut off the power; the spark gap had stopped arcing. I never made that kind of mistake again.
When i was younger, i put my tongue on a live wire, i am surprised i am alive, i got somewhat shocked from it.
When I went over to my great aunt's house as a kid, I would sometimes play games on her computer. The monitor was faulty and would send a fairly hefty current through you if you touched the screen. I don't know why I kept touching it. It was funny :v:
Lit up by a mains filter cap on a 5 dvd surround system. Been bitten a few times by 120 putting plugs in or taking them out, but the worst is 277. 120 feels like you got bit while 277 feels like one punch man sliced your hand off. Got hung up on it for 5 seconds earlier this year but luckily the same arm was grounded so it didn't travel through my heart.
i've had a bad habit of touching electronics while they're running and getting fairly shocked off of VCRs, DVD players, a light socket, but then I've also been shocked by power cords that failed and stray voltage from other things. It probably has helped me develop a good sense to not touch the thingy-that-probably-may-hurt-you.
today i do a much tamer job of shoving my arm into a 10,000 lb press that doesn't have many safety interlocks, working with concentrated acid that melts carbon fiber, and sticking my arms into hot ovens.
getting zapped is a normal part of my day. I'm an aquarium service technician... when water pumps fail it tends to leech a [i]Nasty[/i] shock; especially when it involves salt water. :science101:
sometimes I still get some numbness a few days after a good one too.
Zapped myself twice with a 15kV 30ma neon sign transformer when I was a kid. Fun stuff.
I also managed to forget a bench top power supply I had open for repairs was still plugged in and zapped myself with 240v AC mains. Taught me a valuable lesson.
I was overseas in my grandmama house when I was trying to charge my PSP with an converter. The fucking plastic piece of it fell off some how while it was plugged in so the inside metal part was sticking out.
I tried to pull it out and got shocked pretty good and it made the power went out.
Nope. I'm a total square and take extreme precautions when working with continuous electrical current such as rubber gloves and a jumpsuit to cover my body in case of arc flash. You could say I'm OSHA compliant down to the period.
Four notable times:
Once when I was young by touching the glass of a CRT that had between me plugging it in and me touching it decided to absolutely shit itself. Fucked me up good that shock did.
Another time and the most potentially lethal was when my dumb ass tried to cram two ends of different dirty and partially filled fucking outdoor extension cables together. Ended up slipping and touching the prongs and ho-lee-fuck let me tell ya that was scary. Imagine the feeling of a slowly crawling upward (think CRT scan when viewed through a camera) punching sensation that's perfectly in sync with a somewhat slow oscillating sine wave.
Third time I was trying to make a flashbang with a disposable camera and ended up shorting the damn capacitor with my fingers. That was hilarious because not only did my stupid ass get shocked, but the flash bulb ended up going off too blinding me.
Fourth time was when I was really young and found what I think to have been a metal vibrator in a box that had a thing that resembled a tampon connected to a base by a wire. Apparently whoever wired it was retarded though because when I turned it on it started zapping the shit out of me upon contact with any of the metal surfaces.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;52472781']how did 3 volts shock you lol[/QUOTE]
Going to guess it was less shock, more the battery going fuckin' nuclear in his hands or something based on the whole fire alarm thing.
[QUOTE=supervoltage;52465211]I took a microwave oven apart and took out the tiny motor from the bottom, the one that spins your meal around.
I was holding it in my hand with the terminals touching my skin and decided to use a pair of pliers to spin the spindle manually.
It was then that I was reminded that every electric motor can act as a generator and I mildly shocked my finger with almost 240V of manually generated electricity :v:[/QUOTE]
Similar but balanced the biggest capacitor (as thick as a quarter and an inch tall) on a disassembled microwave via my palm and its two "separate" plates on the lid.
[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;52475565]I never made that kind of mistake again.[/QUOTE]
R.I.P. AtomicWaffle.
Literally fucking dead.
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