Highest shock voltage

[brantmacga]

Are you kidding me..... I cant even believe what I read...

here's a sneak peek for those that didn't click on the link;

MAKE A TINGLE-TRON.

Now I'm going to be quite blunt about this. This project is ONLY for those who really know and understand what they are doing. It involves passing AC current through your body in a path that may affect your heart adversely, and as such the choice of components and the quality of assembly is absolutely paramount.

Being electricians we are no strangers to the odd electric shock now and then, so for fun we decided to see what sort of current could be handled comfortably.

For obvious reasons I cannot be held responsible for the results of your experimentation with a unit like this. You build and use a device like this entirely at your own risk

there's more juicy information there.

 

[McGowdog]

I think I got bit by at least 5000 volts in a physics lab. We were doing some electron experiment and our project didn't work. The CRT we had was broke or something and when I touched some point that wasn't the "DON'T TOUCH HERE" second anode voltage point, I felt a tingle. I went to someone elses setup and tried it there; no buzz. So I concluded ours was somehow busted. So when I was showing my lab partner what I'd done, I grabbed the point that shouldn't have had any voltage, I must have been touching something else with my other hand, because it went ZOWIE!!!!!!! I jumped back and felt like that 9v battery to the tongue, but it was from head to toe. We didn't tell the teacher. We just said our CRT was busted.

I have to admit, I'd rather be hit with 277 than static electricity.
It irritates and embarrases the heck out of me all in one hit.
I have "Electrician Reflex" I get hit and I jump like a girl. No
offense to any women on this forum.

That had me laughing! Static can be annoying. I've recently learned that house plants near things you get shocked by will take most of the charge from you and you won't get bit like a direct hit to ground (screw on a lightswitch face plate). When I'm walking around the house in socks, I don't get shocked. Having house plants around, watering them frequently in the winter, and having humidifiers on helps. Spraying the carpets with some 10:1 water to fabric softener on the floors once in a while doesn't hurt either.

 

[daleuger]

Been hit with the old lawnmower spark plug a few times....120 more times that I'll ever care to admit, and 277 once. Swear brain says go body says no.....never again if I can help it.

Also when I was in the navy we would sometimes hit each other with meggers just messing around, young and foolish I suppose.

 

[daleuger]

Funniest thing about defibrillators.....was wiring a cardiac surgeons office years ago, and there was a defib in the stress-test room (you know... the dreaded treadmill!). Installing UC lights, and looked down at the defib.... it said, "Caution! Risk of electric shock!"

I thought, 'Isn't that was it's supposed to do?!?!?!"

Same reason they have warnings like the ones not to use blow dryers in the tub. I won't be surprised if one day they have a pistol with a warning something like "Shooting yourself in the head may be hazardous to your health."

 

[480sparky]

Same reason they have warnings like the ones not to use blow dryers in the tub. I won't be surprised if one day they have a pistol with a warning something like "Shooting yourself in the head may be hazardous to your health."

But hair dryers are not designed to intentionally shock you. Defibrillators are.



As for handgun warning labels:

 

[daleuger]

But hair dryers are not designed to intentionally shock you. Defibrillators are.

Same level of common sense or rather lack of eh?

 

[480sparky]

Same level of common sense or rather lack of eh?

OK, when you use a hair dryer, do you intend to get shocked? Or a toaster? Or a hedge trimmer? Is getting shocked the purpose of using it?

Now, what exactly is the sole purpose of a defibrillator? Hint: It's not to dry your hair, make your morning toast or help you do your yard work.

 

[daleuger]

No it's not for drying your hair....clearly, but it takes about the same amount of brain power to tell you not to hit yourself with one when it's not needed as it does to figure out it's a bad idea to bathe with a hair dryer or a toaster.

 

[nhfire77]

I am a LV guy but I got 277 off a light circuit once.

I was doing a burg/camera job in a gymnasium/fitness center and the EC was supposed to do the fire alarm too. We got the fire alarm job after the EC couldn't meet the deadline on everything else. I figured out what dragged them down; they were too busy leaving live MC on the gym floor, uncapped. I stepped on it and it sparked off building steel jumped onto my arm and them back on the floor, but never tripped the CB.

I did a bit of yelling in the corner I was all by myself. Then, calmly asked them to pick up their live MC all over the place.

 

[djohns6]

Not counting ignition systems on engines , I got hit by a Capacitor trip device
on a circuit breaker . That was about 325 volts . I " fuzzed " out .

 

[Fulthrotl]

here's a sneak peek for those that didn't click on the link;

there's more juicy information there.

here's a photo of one of the developers of this revolutionary device,
"testing" both it, and my astonishment.

george carlin put it well.....:

"Consider how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them
are stupider than that."

 

[McGowdog]

Now is it the voltage that actually gets us, or the generated charge flow/dissipation?

But if we're gonna talk about voltage, or charge potential... how about kilovolts or megavolts? But I know what you're gonna say... "Yeah, but the amps are very low." Well, they better be! I got hit a couple of times with this yesterday, but I did it on purpose. It's so much easier when you know when it's coming. And if it's static, the duty cycle ain't bad and it isn't continuous.

 

[rich9112]

Oops

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Funny thing--After getting nailed by a phone, I stopped stripping the wires with my teeth. Theenes tasthed wreelly fthunny fthor a fthew hourrs.

 

[LarryFine]

Funny thing--After getting nailed by a phone, I stopped stripping the wires with my teeth. Theenes tasthed wreelly fthunny fthor a fthew hourrs.

Yeth, they thure do!

(Be glad it didn't ring just then. )

 

[daleuger]

Yeth, they thure do!

(Be glad it didn't ring just then. )

That's how ya usually get nailed. :roll:

 

[cowboyjwc]

Yeth, they thure do!

(Be glad it didn't ring just then. )

The time I did it, it did

I could taste my fillings for hours after that.

 

[mthead]

Highest shock voltage

Brian John brought back an old memory [re;12 elec holding hands..,etc--which by the way sounds like a great premise for an electrician joke...]
Back in 1979 when I was a student at Fordham University..,we had this thing that we referred to as "THE SHOCK_BOX"-it was an old hand cranked Army surplus generator-probably used for field radios or the like?-We would bring it out at parties-make the old circle of fools-hold hands and crank away until someone let go-just think-the for runner to what is now a game found in many arcades under the name "Uncle Festers' Adams Family Shock treatment".
Yup.Those were the days .A mind IS a terrible thing to lose!

 

[LarryFine]

Brian John brought back an old memory [re;12 elec holding hands..,etc--which by the way sounds like a great premise for an electrician joke...]
Back in 1979 when I was a student at Fordham University..,

I knew where you were headed as soon as I read that far. :smile:



Answer: The New York Board of Insurance Underwriters.

(Need a new question; this is the third or fourth time I've answered it. )

 

[mthead]

Highest shock voltage

I thought that question was to be forever known as my 'tag' line-once answered it becomes just a rhetorical line-
Do you mean I should periodically change my sign off?
Well ,there ya go-just one more thought for my busy day$%
Re; to the shock box-so everyone had one of those at one time or another eh?
And here we thought we were a special bunch of mindless students-

What did you do in the war daddy --The late 70's version-What did you do back in school daddy?

 

[LarryFine]

I thought that question was to be forever known as my 'tag' line-once answered it becomes just a rhetorical line-
Do you mean I should periodically change my sign off?

Not necessary, not just because I mentioned it anyway. :wink:

I just thought it was a newly-asked question; you post (relatibely) seldom.