Utter stupidity on my part

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I am completely thankful that I know God and he was standing next to me last friday. I got a call that a huge industrial parts wash unit was malfunctioning. I went down for a quick once over before grabbing any tools. I start looking around and thought I knew the problem-blown fuses. Well of course in my temporary state of stupidity I neglected to take the time to go to the shop and retrieve my meter and some other necessary tools and decided to just punch the E-stop and try and change the fuses. I used an ink pen to pop them out of the fuse holder on one end and when I grabbed the other end.....VIOLA---- 280 volts. I realize sitting here writing this that I am a complete moron at times and will NEVER again take a short cut to accomplish something quickly.
 
Good to hear all is well!!!!

My definition of a moron is when bad/wrong things are repeated continually but expecting a different outcome.... :roll:

Do something wrong one time and learn from it...then just a mistake. Intelligence factor recovered...and you get to retain your 'SMART CARD LICENSE'...:grin:
 
Congrats on being smart enough to admit how very easy it is to make a life threatening mistake for other people to learn from............
 
Thankfully you are OK and alive to tell the tale.

I am glad that you learned from the experience.

Here again is another great example of why we should follow the safety guidelines in 70E.

Chris
 
Glad your OK. Having a tester or two with you is a must when changing fuses. Even if the power was off and you successfully changed the fuse(s), without knowing why it blew you could be in for a surprise when you close the disco, put power back to the MCC ect.
 
Some of the most famous last words in history:

1) Indians? What Indians?
2) Watch this!
3) Are you sure the power's off?

I've done the "twice" thing that Shado was talking about, that's when you feel like a moron.:smile:
 
cowboyjwc said:
Some of the most famous last words in history:

1) Indians? What Indians?
2) Watch this!
3) Are you sure the power's off?
Click to expand...
I still like:

Lone Ranger: "Well, Tonto, it looks like we're done for!"

Tonto: "What you mean "we," paleface?!"
 
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