Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

[jwelectric]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

Originally posted by LarryFine:
Just where you took the "pole", I don't want to know!

But I am still a very handsome man.

 

[GG]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

Costs about a dollar at Lowes.

 

[peter d]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

GG, Great post.

 

[marinesgt0411]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

take a cord cap attach a 12 solid wire to the hot terminal and a 12 solid wire to the grounded neutral terminal now plug the ends of the wires into the ends of a hot dog plug the cord cap into a 15 amp 120 volt outlet and let it sit for about half a minute you will have a well cooked hot dog and some idea as to what is happening to your body every time you test a circuit the way you described

 

[stud696981]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

It always amazes me how many people use their fingers to test for power. Years ago when I was an apprentice, many of the journeyman I worked with also did this. I always refused to do this because I felt it was unsafe and given the fact that I had been zapped before made me even more uncomfortable to do that. One time I even had an EC call me a sissy and told me I was wasting time reaching for my meter.

 

[George Stolz]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

Originally posted by stud696981:
One time I even had an EC call me a sissy and told me I was wasting time reaching for my meter.

I love that. That happened to me recently.

Now I have some sexy stats to throw in their face.

Get your house ready, I will install the trim material, and energize a finished product.

Yeah, right.

 

[wpaul29]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

I worked with a guy that touched 2 phases off 277 thats 480 volt with his palm. He told me that he could feel a little tingle but not much else. He showed me his hand an it was very dry an callused.
These were the main lugs in a panel he just walked up an pressed his palm against it. I think that the amount of moisture in the skin has alot to do with what he could feel.

 

[LarryFine]

Re: Repeated exposure to electrocution from 120 outlets.

I'm the opposite: I get shocked easily, and I HATE it!