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In Reply to: RE: One of the first things i do in a new to me apartment is label the breaker box posted by abs1 on May 22, 2014 at 13:47:05
I remember my father flying across the room when he was fixing our TV with it turned on..
Wow. what a hit.. he touched the high voltage gizmo and KABOOM was knocked across the room. He was OK.
So it runs in the family.
Live wires are not dangerous if you are paying attention.
You drive down the freeway at 75mph... And accept it. (Any mistake can kill you there too) So what is different about electricity?
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When most people are shocked, it is because one hand touched a hot lead and the circuit is completed through the legs, and the heart is largely bypassed. This situation is very different if one hand touches a hot lead and the other hand is touching a grounded piece of metal, in which case the current is traveling directly through the heart. It also matters whether your body is sweaty or not (most skin has less resistance).
Instead of playing Russian roulette, turn off the breaker....
Retsel
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Literally for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would choose to work with live AC delivery rather than disconnect an electrical device. The use of a test probe is the only exception I can think of at this time.
"I remember my father flying across the room when he was fixing our TV with it turned on.."
When I was a teenager I was playing around with a neon sign transformer and managed to get a shock off the secondary. Or at least that's my assumption. When I came to I was against the wall on the far side of my room. On another occasion around this time I was fiddling with an antenna coupler of a 1000 watt ham radio transmitter when I smelled burning "pork". I found this curious until I noticed that it was my finger that was being burned. I do not recall any pain from either escapade.
I would not suggest concluding that electricity or RF are safe based on these stories. It might be that I was lucky, but as far as you can know, I may have had dozens of evil twins who passed away from similar escapades and never made it to the Internet age. So you are seeing a biased sample.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Live wires are not dangerous if you are paying attention.
Live wires ARE dangerous if you are paying attention. If you stop paying attention even for a moment (e.g. the telephone rings), they become extremely dangerous.
he touched the high voltage gizmo and KABOOM was knocked across the room. He was OK.
He was also lucky - the effect varies with the impedance of the circuit one touches. I don't understand why someone willing to spend silly money on audio kit doesn't first spend a little on basic electrical safety measures such as earth leakage circuit breakers.
You drive down the freeway at 75mph...
True - but I don't play chicken in the fast lane.
So what is different about electricity?
You don't see it coming. You can't listen out for it. It travels at more than 75 mph. And so on.
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