yay! electricity is phun!

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-07 11:52am

Well, i managed to give myself a damn good jolt of electricity this weekend. I was installing a new light in my hallway and instead of pulling the main circuit breaker i just switched off the light and made a mental note to be careful. PoW! Fortuntately it was only a 110 volt circuit and it was a ceiling mount so i got a quick zap and fell down. Needless to say i quickly pulled the main before i finished and kept it off until i had installed ALL of the new lights. Yes, i'm a dumbass.

Ravenwing · Post by **Ravenwing** » 2004-06-07 11:56am

Oh very smart

*applauds loudly*

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-06-07 01:13pm

You have not experienced fun until you've shorted out a large, fully charged high voltage capacitor. But I do have to admit that 110V AC gives you a pretty nice buzz. And remember, beer and electricity don't mix.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-07 02:31pm

Heh, reminds me of my screwed PC powersupply that put the whole case under electricity, which suddenly zapped me when I touched it to see why the PC had shut down...

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-06-07 03:45pm

Did you gain any superpowers?

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-07 04:01pm

Zoink wrote:Did you gain any superpowers?

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-06-07 04:26pm

Sokartawi wrote:
Zoink wrote:Did you gain any superpowers?
[img]http://80.60.190.55/pics/lightning.jpg[img]

Great comeback!!

I just wish my car would stop shocking me everytime I get out of her.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-06-07 05:04pm

LadyTevar wrote:I just wish my car would stop shocking me everytime I get out of her.

Don't pull out so fast, women don't appreciate it

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-06-08 02:25am

My Civic shocks me all the time. I think its the cloth seats.

Hehe, I learned to shut off the main breaker for the whole house when working on electrical stuff. Why? Because, panels are often mislabled.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-06-08 02:29am

Ouch, same thing happened to me a few weeks ago.

Stupid electricity.

Glad you're ok though.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-08 06:50am

according to my wife, it was funny as hell. I did the Ack! eLeCtRiCiTy iS ShOcKiNg Me! dance for a second and then fell down swearing like a drunken sailor.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-06-08 07:38am

I am glad you are ok. Lucky for you it was only 110 volts not 220 volts as found in my country.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-08 08:09am

evilcat4000 wrote:I am glad you are ok. Lucky for you it was only 110 volts not 220 volts as found in my country.

Ouch. although i was hit with 240 volt 3-phase once at work because of faulty, exposed wiring. I don't work there anymore. Where i work now we have voltages up to 480 Volts, but it is a much safer work environment.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-06-08 09:51am

It's not the voltage you have to watch out for, its the amps and ohms, or as my friend likes to annoy physics teachers, omps and ahms. I wonder how much voltage you dropped off the circuit.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2004-06-08 01:16pm

I bet that was a shocking experience.

Be glad it was 110v, anything higher hurts like a bitch and tends to light stuff on fire, other than just burning you really damn good.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-06-08 02:08pm

Bah, that's nothing. I once had the capacitor in an old Apple monitor discharge into my arm.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-08 02:22pm

Executor32 wrote:Bah, that's nothing. I once had the capacitor in an old Apple monitor discharge into my arm.

dude, capacitors are fun! charge 'em up and tazer your friends. Although anything larger than a cap for camera flash is a bit much.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2004-06-08 05:52pm

I nearly got zapped four fucking times when I was fixing the Hako floor cleaner at work. Bastard un-covered wires. The spanner I was using looked like it had been used be Ripley to beat the shit out of an Alien. (it was melted)

Straha The Stoner · Post by **Straha The Stoner** » 2004-06-08 06:26pm

sounds harsh. The closest I can come to it when in gym class a few ago(when we cleaned out the lockers) I unplugged my laptop and while I was unplugging it I got a shock I simply got jolted and immedinatly made a move to grab onto the insulated part of the powercord.

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2004-06-08 06:45pm

In my youth, I blew out a old TV's power supply by "creatively" rewiring the TV's innards. It fired a 4 ft lighting bolt into the ceiling (due to grounded water pipes I think). The next day I hooked it up to a 12 V car battery charger to see if still worked. Nothing seemed to be happening, when I realized that direct current wasn't going to do anything to a transformer.

So, I scraped one of the wires along the charger's electrode to create some AC. Seeing sparks, I leaned in closer and tried again, not realizing that I was no longer holding onto the insulated part of the charger's electrode.

My arms contracted with enough force to throw me 3 ft backwards right into a coathook (dead centre on my spine). No serious harm, done, but both my arms and back hurt like a MF.