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Highest shock voltage

  • 120

    Votes: 31 16.4%

  • 208

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • 240

    Votes: 11 5.8%

  • 277

    Votes: 83 43.9%

  • 480

    Votes: 34 18.0%

  • 600

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Over 600

    Votes: 22 11.6%

  • They call me Hap Shaugnessy

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Total voters
    189
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Ed Carr

Senior Member
Location
way upstate NY
When I was a kid 16 or so I was hooking up a stereo in my car.
My parents garage was heated and it being the winter time there
was about an inch of water covering the floor.Plugged in an old
Black & Decker metal case drill and when I picked it up...wow.
Couldn't let go and when I passed out and fell to the floor
it came unplugged.I went for days and wouldn't so much as turn on
a light.My father being rather "frugal" kept the drill telling me
I imagined the severity of the shock I had received.That is until the
day when he was at the top of an aluminum ladder putting a rain
gutter on the house.The drill imediately made it to the garbage can.:grin:
Of course since then I've been nipped many times,but when I hear "120
can't hurt ya" well you know.

Ed
 
steelersman

steelersman

Senior Member
Location
Lake Ridge, VA
Ed Carr said:
When I was a kid 16 or so I was hooking up a stereo in my car.
My parents garage was heated and it being the winter time there
was about an inch of water covering the floor.Plugged in an old
Black & Decker metal case drill and when I picked it up...wow.
Couldn't let go and when I passed out and fell to the floor
it came unplugged.I went for days and wouldn't so much as turn on
a light.My father being rather "frugal" kept the drill telling me
I imagined the severity of the shock I had received.That is until the
day when he was at the top of an aluminum ladder putting a rain
gutter on the house.The drill imediately made it to the garbage can.:grin:
Of course since then I've been nipped many times,but when I hear "120
can't hurt ya" well you know.

Ed
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2 spaces after a period before you start the next sentence please.
 
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SEO

Senior Member
Location
Michigan
Voltage effects everyone differently. I had an apprentice that worked for me who sweat a lot and a 16 volt doorbell transformer would rap him good.
 
480sparky

480sparky

Senior Member
Location
Iowegia
According to AT&T, the ringing signal is an 88v 20Hz A.C. signal superimposed on 48v nominal D.C. supervisory voltage. However, the actual ringing signal used can and does vary greatly from one location to another.
 
chris kennedy

chris kennedy

Senior Member
Location
Miami Fla.
Occupation
60 yr old tool twisting electrician
480sparky said:
According to AT&T, the ringing signal is an 88v 20Hz A.C. signal superimposed on 48v nominal D.C. supervisory voltage. However, the actual ringing signal used can and does vary greatly from one location to another.
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Hook up the Fluke, I'm going to call you.
 
480sparky

480sparky

Senior Member
Location
Iowegia
chris kennedy said:
Making money or checking your home heating cycles?:smile:
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Makin' money. That's the name of the game. You can still call me, though.
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wbalsam1

wbalsam1

Senior Member
Location
Upper Jay, NY
Had a serious leak in my rubber vest doing hi-line on 15,000volts. Hospitalized. Came through it fine. Took a while. Family awful scared.

Got zapped real bad when working 277 hot for a bunch of guys that didn't want the lights out. Almost lights out for me. Woke up in hospital. On it long enough so that I prayed and thought I would never see my family again.

Got zapped working 240 electric heat that I thought my apprentice had turned off. Got both legs. Lasted most of the day before I ended up in the emergency room for muscle relaxers, pain killers, etc.
got............
got.......
I don't work hot any more. :cool:
 
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