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Default Static electricity to the eyeball?

Yes I suspect that it coincided with her ear wax moving about a bit.
I see that those electrical shows are still popular where people use their
bodies to draw huge sparks and invite members of the audience to try it.
When I was young I used to play with electricity, high voltage in the ranges
of thousands of volts but I did do it safely using high value resistors to
current limit the shocks you got. In fact it could often only be felt as a
tiny burn on the point of the body the spark jumped from.

Its the current that does the damage.
Not sure health and safety would allow what I did in school these days
though.
There are some things you can still get to play with very high voltages
safely. One used to be called a violet Wand. Basically a tesla coil and you
could see the corona around the charged up tip. Back in the early part of
the century, people use to pay for electric therapy with this thing which of
course tingled as it was passed over parts of the body. I'm not totally sure
this was not just a way to get sexual thrills but then I was not around, but
similar things are still made.


Van der Graff generators Windshurst machines etc, both use the static build
up model to create their high voltages and one has to be careful not to add
capacitors to them as the discharge from one of those will kill yu if it
crosses the heart.
Brian

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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:41:34 -0800, Bob F
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On 12/14/2018 10:41 AM, Fred Johnson wrote:
Could static electricity to the eyeball cause lasting harm? Normally
you just jump and swear with a static shock to your finger etc, but I've
found two instances on google of pain lasting a few days when someone
got a shock on their nose (one in a shop from a perfume bottle they were
smelling, and one from a blanket at home). But what if it got your
eyeball?


Does it still hurt? The pain will go away. How is your vision? Bleery
or an actual obstructed view in one eye. A little damage to the eyeball
that is not in front of the pupil probably won't hurt you, but you might
want to see an ophthamologist. You should be checked for glaucoma every
few years anyhow.

Victor Riesel, an investigative newspaper "journalist and columnist",
had acid thrown in his face by mobsters, when he was 43 years old, and
he was blind the rest of his life (but he continued to write his column
until he was 76). These days I think they have ways to smooth things
over. at least if the damage is small.

A neighbor of mine got shocked by her landline phone when lightning
struck while I was talking to her on my phone. It turned out that the
phone line protective ground had been disconnected. She said that her
hearing was hyper-sensitive for weeks after that. Everything was way
louder.


I could use that these days.

Where do I disconnect that ground and how do I get my phone struck by
lightning?