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mike[_22_]
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Circuit panel safety question New linoleum pattern
On 3/7/2014 1:14 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
posted for all of us...
And I know how to SNIP
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:56:27 -0500, micky
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:12:24 -0800, Oren wrote:
I've read that DC contracts your muscles and you cannot let go. AC
pulsates, with a chance to break away.
BUT don't take my advice.
Well, I've gotten 110 AC several times (and one time I figured out that
my train transformer was broken, becuase I'd opened it up and had been
handling it for an hour and never got a shock, even though I had
forgotten to unplug it. The plug was broken from the wire.)
And I once got 2000 volts DC, from a television. I didn't hold on and
it knocked me across the room and dislocated a shoulder than hadn't been
out for 15 years. I might have been on my haunches instead of my knees.
That was a violation of Philo's or Robert's rules. I was being careful
and don't even know what I touched.
The beauty of a colour TV (CRT) is you didn't HAVE to touch
anything. With 6000volts you just had to get CLOSE. 6000 was on B&W
sets - big colour sets can be as high as 25000+
I had a REAL old TV transformer straighten me out real quick - and at
6"I was taller than the basement ceiling height. My hard head drove a
nail (head) up through the linoleum flooring , hitting it on the sharp
end from below.
You nailed this thread. This is a shocking story. You are a hard head!
From my experience, you're more likely to be injured by the thing you
hit when you fly across the room than the electrical jolt itself.
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