Getting shocked

[ZOOTECH]

Re: Getting shocked

I was once working on a Savin 770 and was tweaking the MC voltage with my screwdriver... A very good looking secretary was walking by in a short hot looking outfit... "INTENTIONALLY DISTRACTING MY ATTENTION" I slipped the screwdriver and touch the main power source, my reaction was to swing my arm back and let loose with the screwdriver which flew across the room and landed in a hand painted portrait of the founder of the company.... Totally Humiliated and Embarrassed... Second most expensive damage to I've done to a customers office....

So... what was the first???

[NeoMatrix]

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First shock....I've the odd one or two over the years .

I'll start with the best shock I got was when I step over a 20Kv electric fence. Damn thing cracked just under my right testicle and arched on my leg. My old man always told me never get hit by an electric fence because it feels like someone slambed you on the top of the head with a rubber sledge hammer. (Same as tyre mechanics use) Holy sh!t that is exactly what it feels like. Your stomach muscle contract that damn hard that you feel like you slamb down and headbutt your own @ss.

After the initial hit, I stood back wobbled a bit, walked sideways for a couple of yards than sat down looking at little white stars rolling around in my eyes for about 10 minutes. My missus said to me "are you alright, you look ghostly white". I think I mumble something to her, I can't remember what.

[Akitu]

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First shock....I've the odd one or two over the years .

I'll start with the best shock I got was when I step over a 20Kv electric fence. Damn thing cracked just under my right testicle and arched on my leg. My old man always told me never get hit by an electric fence because it feels like someone slambed you on the top of the head with a rubber sledge hammer. (Same as tyre mechanics use) Holy sh!t that is exactly what it feels like. Your stomach muscle contract that damn hard that you feel like you slamb down and headbutt your own @ss.

After the initial hit, I stood back wobbled a bit, walked sideways for a couple of yards than sat down looking at little white stars rolling around in my eyes for about 10 minutes. My missus said to me "are you alright, you look ghostly white". I think I mumble something to her, I can't remember what.

Something along the lines of "where did my balls go after that shock? I think I can feel one of them in my lung" perhaps?

[blackcat4866]

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My friend's pit bull, Buddy, did this once. We strung up two strands of electric fence around the garden. The low strand was for the small critters ~ 6" above the ground, and the high strand was for big critters like deer ~3 feet above the ground. Up until now Buddy had been great at chasing off the birds feasting on the garden.

The first day the fence was live he stepped over the low wire, but accidentally touched his testicles to the wire. Have you ever seen a dog fly?

He must have jumped 15 feet into the garden. When he regained his bearings he was scared to death to cross the fence. Smart dog. We opened the gate to let him out, but he wasn't taking any chances on a repeat performance. He jumped the top wire with 2 feet to spare.

Even a year later he can identify electric fence, and won't get within three feet of it. Can you blame him? =^..^=

[gwaddle]

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Growing up on a farm I got hit by the electric fence so many times I hardly noticed anymore. Although I never got it in the "tender area". Probably would have noticed that.

[MR Bill]

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This goes way back. Saxon estat copier. C-500, B-12 what ever model. Only the old timers will know them. Take the back cover off and every switch is hot, about 12 switches. Got bit, 120 volts will flat out wake you up. Heart really gets going.

And electric fences, Was walking in the field holding my young son. He was 2 years old. Brushed up against the wire. Reflexs makes you jump. I kinda throw him in the air. He was not grounded and didn't feel the shock . He did feel hitting the ground from 5 feet up tho. Poor kid. He's thinking, shit dad. why did you throw me in the air like that. He walked from then on. LOl.

[NeoMatrix]

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Growing up on a farm I got hit by the electric fence so many times I hardly noticed anymore. Although I never got it in the "tender area". Probably would have noticed that.

Try the 10km jobs . The bigger HV units pack a punch for the 10kms. I estimate I got hit at the 2km mark. I can only guess what the voltage and current was at that distance . I can certainly reassure you that after the 1st volt was reached I did'nt care much to stick around to put my tongue on it to see...

[Venom]

[Lagonda]

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Of course one way of avoiding electrical shocks is to make sure every thing is properly earthed.


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[HenryT2]

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My FIRST was an old APECO; ( remember those ? ) the corona was making a buzzing noise... me, a simple tech in training for three whole days. asked the tech who was training me what the noise was. He looked at me with a straight face and said " Put your finger on it and show me where the noise is coming from . " I got out my index finger and started to point to the corona: needless to say, I never made it all the way..... it arced up my arm, singed hair, and slapped me about six feet away, landing on my butt. When I could finally stand all the way upright...I grabbed my screwdriver and headed toward my ' teacher ' .
No, I didn't kill him, Sure wanted to though.
The SECOND time ( another APECO ) was definately accidental on my part .
Apeco, Copystat, Savin, Toshiba all had exposed switches, heatsinks, etc. YEP , had to work on those most of the time with them plugged in; adjust the lamps, switches, etc, while keeping your fingers out of the drive chain. ( uh oh.... someone could start another thread on mangled fingers ) .
AHH the good ole days .

[nmfaxman]

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A friend of mine was working on an old analog Minolta with blank copies.
I told him to check the grid voltage to ground from the front of the machine.
I stopped by later to see what he had found and noticed skid marks on the floor behind the machine.
I asked him WTF and he said he didn't get any voltage on the grid and wanted to check the corona terminal on the back.
He had touched the main charge with the meter lead while holding the frame of the machine, hence the skid marks.
Talk about ROTFL.

[NeoMatrix]

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A long time ago I was working in a gov't office on an accient Canon NP7500.
I had to get at a feed clutch problem, so I had to remove the main power board out of the machine.

Above the machine was a normal 240V dual power point where the copy machine plugged in along with other equipment.
I did all the usual saftey procedures. I visually traced the two power plugs and leads back to each peice of equipment. Little did I realise that just below the copier out of my sight the electrical leads turn around each other which made me believe I pulled out the correct copier plug from the wall.

Well I was in the process of removing the main board. I had my hands and fingers touching every where over the main power board when the fuse socket accidential touch the metal frame of the copier. Holy sh!t, talk about the 4th of july. I've see less sparks coming off a welder. This live board sprayed sparks around the room for 10 feet. I sat back against the wall absolutely shaking. Much to my relieved surprise I never got an electrical shock during the pyrotechnics. I was still shaking for about two hours after even thought it never booted me.
These power boards put out a load of power. From memory they use to run 240V in at dual 120v rails at about 25amps.

I beleive I threw my under pants for that day in the bin...

And yes, I learnt to correctly trace power leads back to the equipment from that day on.

[Venom]

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( uh oh.... someone could start another thread on mangled fingers ) .
AHH the good ole days .

[kingarthur]

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managed to mangle 3 fingers in a week, 1st time i was carrying a cash till up the stairs & slipped, got up & carried on walking, only when i went to open the door, i noticed blood all down my left arm, then saw the gash in my little finger, left hand, the thin metal plate on the bottom of the till sliced through my little finger & through the tendon, i now have a useless little finger on my left hand....not much good when your left handed....a couple of days later working on a Rexel computashred, had the covers off & thought the mains was disconnected....also forgot the safety switch on the shredder ( god i was clumsy in those days)...leant forward to check the belt tension, but the only thing to lean on was the pillar with the switches on, leant on the forward button......there wasn't enough room for a piece of paper to fit between the pulley & the belt....but my fingers managed it!!!

[vincent64]

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There was one more time, were always told to pull a cord out of the socket by the plug not the cord it self, well in doing this using one hand, mananged to get a finger between the outlet face and plug and hit the blade just before it was all the way out, gives you a tingle, but it happens so fast, your not sure it happend, now if its pulling a plug out of a power bar, and you got just one had free, you use thumb and fingers and work it out, it can happen more often, but often the blade clears just as you get a buzz there.