Don't mess around with electricity.

[Frank]

I thought DC just burns you up and that it was AC that causes your body to jerk and clamp down the reason you cant let go?

I also understand it is what between 400 mil amp to 1 amp that can throw your heart out of rhythm but higher it is burning?

[zora04]

A technician and myself were working on a 4160Vac soft start. We had the disconnect open and the transformer killed out. I went outside to get some tools and found him crouched in the corner when I returned. He said something shocked the fuck outta him. I knew we had everything powered down, and thought he was full of shit. I got into the starter and started checking around. BAM! Something knocked the ever living fuck outta me. The only thing I could figure was the 2000hp induction motor windings were holding a charge. Voltmeter to ground showed 1000Vdc. I've been hit a couple of times, but that was by far the worst. It knocked my dick in the dirt.

[AMJ]

i got hit by 220v switching a clothes dryer socket for a friend it shocked my toungue and i tasted metalic for a lil while, i also stupidly put my hand on the coil to my old truck luckly there was no carb stud. Glad to hear your friends ok.

[Baron Von Crowder]

i got hit by 220v switching a clothes dryer socket for a friend it shocked my toungue and i tasted metalic for a lil while, i also stupidly put my hand on the coil to my old truck luckly there was no carb stud. Glad to hear your friends ok.

Should I ask how?

[MustangPoser]

Swapped the capacitor on my AC today. Not sure I would have touched it had I read this thread first..

[samuel642000]

I remember that. I didn't know how serious it was though.

Yep,

Was pulling a new service to a house made the connection to the house (dead end) had the excess laying over the side of the bucket and it happened to be on my arm.

Reached up to cut the old service loose and and don't remember much after that. Just waking up in the bottom of the bucket curled up in the fetal position. Mind you, being a taller guy, if I dropped something in the bucket it was a royal pain to bend over to get it. So you can imagine the pile of mass at the bottom of the bucket.

Anywho, later on it was figured out that whomever put that transformer in decided to ground it to the old house service instead of it's own ground strap or the system neutral.

So me being complacent, no gloves, cut that old neutral loose and was light up like Las Vegas. The only reason I'm alive with all my limbs is the new service, which provided the path to ground, wasn't attached to the pole and when I went rigid the weight of the line pulled it off of me.

So needless to say I was extremely lucky in this incident. Had my thumb blown open where it went in, and a nice hole in my opposite elbow where it went out, got a couple scars, and the meat of my thumb never totally healed. But I'll take that over being 6 feet under/ dismembered.

I've had a whole bunch of close calls, and by that I mean real brushes with death, but this was by far the worse.

So everyone wear your PPE and assume the line is hot.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

I thought DC just burns you up and that it was AC that causes your body to jerk and clamp down the reason you cant let go?

I also understand it is what between 400 mil amp to 1 amp that can throw your heart out of rhythm but higher it is burning?

Both are bad. Given a choice, I'll take AC all day.

It takes as little as 10mA to stop your heart.

[DFWtechie]

I swear by these at work all the time.

When I did commercial Electrical back in the early 90's, I got lit the fuck off 480V and got into some 277 a few times. I know of a guy who working 277 lighting an leaned against a sprinkler pipe with his neck, the ckts were suppose to be shut down but he got lit up and it went out his neck. He survived but was from what I understand still has a speech problem and a few physical issues. He is alive because someone knocked his ladder out from under him so he could fall from the pipe.
The lower the amps the worse it is, DC or AC.

http://www.swgr.com/store/protective-clothing-and-equipment/product/Glove-Kit-3.aspx?gclid=CJ2Sz5Db4b8CFYVDMgodYD4AwQ

[BERNIE MOSFET]

I swear by these at work all the time.

When I did commercial Electrical back in the early 90's, I got lit the fuck off 480V and got into some 277 a few times. I know of a guy who working 277 lighting an leaned against a sprinkler pipe with his neck, the ckts were suppose to be shut down but he got lit up and it went out his neck. He survived but was from what I understand still has a speech problem and a few physical issues. He is alive because someone knocked his ladder out from under him so he could fall from the pipe.
The lower the amps the worse it is, DC or AC.

http://www.swgr.com/store/protective...FYVDMgodYD4AwQ

Why do you say lower amperage is worse?

[davbrucas]

I have seen the effects of high voltage on human tissue...it is not pleasant and smells horrendous. I recently took care of a guy working in a bucket on high power lines and somehow his bucket tipped and he instinctively grabbed the wire to prevent a fall...both his arms looked like he held a grenade in his hands as it went off...awful.

[AMJ]

Should I ask how?

didnt check the breakers they where hooked up to the main power output. I had to shut off the whole house.fuck my life im a retard come on now yall havent figured that out by now?

[AMJ]

Why do you say lower amperage is worse?

lower amps will hold ya while the higher will throw ya. btw my pops was a electrician

[petyweestraw]

Worse I've had was 220 from a dryer plug swap. That sucked so I can't imagine the shit some of you dealt with. My wife apparently missed a breaker. I've never trusted her since.

[SEB]

That's crazy! Hope your buddy pulls through ok Yale!

[bcoop]

Worse I've had was 220 from a dryer plug swap. That sucked so I can't imagine the shit some of you dealt with. My wife apparently missed a breaker. I've never trusted her since.

So glad you dig up a 7 month old thread to share with us. I don't think I could have made it through the day without knowing.