I just had shock from a plug socket

was a guy in our local paper a while back who accidentally cut through the mains wire that came from street to the house. he flew 12ft acorss the room into a wall and his boots where melted to the floor in the place where hed started !

lamazingly lucky to still be alive !
 
I was unplugging the video cable from the wall once and felt a sudden sharp, stinging sensation, a bit like being bitten by something rather nasty, and my arm suddenly twitched for a second. No flying backwards or anything, just a pain.

My mate did once stick a pair of scissors in a school plug socket and turned it on. Apparently there was a very loud bang and all the sockets went out, so all the teacher's electronic whiteboards and that went blank. He got in quite a bit of trouble for that (weekend detention). He is well known for his interesting (for "interesting" read "quite mad") japes.
 
ConTRo13R said:
i stuck my finger in the light bulb things on the ceiling! pushed the pins in and got a shock!

it was fun lol though i doubt id do it again lol
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Thats what i did. Hurt a bit but not as much as I thought afterwards when I realised what i'd done.
 
I work in substations up to 275kv, luckily no electric shocks. I dont wanna ever feel what its like either!

And under 1000v, is considered LV.

The biggest danger i face is making a mistake and open circuiting a CT. Not good!
 
[Sniper][Wolf];12283935 said:
*I just experienced near death.
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Major over reaction

Took the light bulb out and stuck my fingers in, to see what would happen. When I was about 8 ish. got two big blisters and a valuable lesson.


Also going to be working around London soon with the 3rd rail and overheads. Got to say I'm not looking forward to it.
 
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Suprised how many people have had shocks from 230v mains! In a lot of cases it will just be a "shock" and not fatal, but remember there are certainly instances when it could be fatal.

I have been shocked by 10,000v, it was from a small marx generator I was using. Was treading on some of that enamelled wire which was live and reached to disconnect the power supply, which by touching the negative connection completed the circuit. Gave a good shock, but obviously not very serious, low current only involved.

I find it wierd how you can get shocked upstairs or in a lot of places for that matter (ie, stood on vinyl kitchen floor tiles) since the earth connection must be very poor (clingfilm can insulate 230v, honestly). However, it seems you can. Linking one side of a high voltage generator to earth and touching the output will give you some shock, usually comparitively feeble, but even upstairs. That is why mains is dangerous anyhow, you never know how well you are grounded; also what path through you the current takes is important as to the damage it may do.
 
I've been working with 3-phase supplies and huge capacitor banks for a while now, but I've never had a problem.

The only time I've electrocuted myself on more than 9V was when messing with a non standard computer PSU from an old case. The kettle socket was external and as I slid the wire from the PSU onto the socket pins the insulation slid off and my thumb hit the 240V AC live wire. I couldn't even let go, it was like my hand was permanently gripped on.
 
AcidHell2 said:
doesn't work. mythbusters.
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Was going to say yeah. Lots of stories claiming this but its proven not to work. Urine can't conduct because the rate it comes out is too low and leaves gaps between the droplets. It needs to be like a high pressure hose to set up a conducting water flow!
 
a lot of confusion in this thread about how electicity works...

it's the current that kills, ie- the flow to earth through you.

if ever doing anything in your house with electrics, even putting a plug in, don't use your other hand for anything.. if you grab a radiator for example and get a shock on other arm you get a path straight to earth through your heart, game over. In theory if you had totally insulating shoes you could freely grab a live wire and not feel a thing, though electricity can arc about so maybe not a good idea. (and why birds happily sit on pylons)

it only takes about 7mA (7/1000ths) of a amp to kill, I believe at this kind of level muscles spasm and your unable to let go of the source of the shock

you can easily take 10s/100s thousands of volts if the current is low enough...
 
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Not had one off the mains that I recall, but had a nice belt from a car when I was holding the starter power cable when someone cranked the engine.
 
Lopéz said:
Not had one off the mains that I recall, but had a nice belt from a car when I was holding the starter power cable when someone cranked the engine.
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Thats from the HT for ignition, I'm guessing that would be 10,000+ volts, high voltage shocks give a real bite, but do little else with low current.

Last shock I had was taking plug off a extension lead and forgot to unplug other end, that was a surprise :(
 
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Sparky who wired up our last flat put a leccy heater outlet in one room on the wrong circuit (ring main), whilst the others were on the correct circuit marked "heaters". I'm sure you can guess the rest.
 
According to this thread, it proves that people dont die from electric shocks and it is perfectly safe to mess around with it.

JimAroo said:
I also remember getting one off a Gas fire lighter, that was pretty intense.. like next thing up from the lighter trick.
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Yeah gas fire lighter was quite fun. Had a small spaz attack, which my mom saw and she said: were you messing around with the gas fire lighter?
 
bum said:
According to this thread, it proves that people dont die from electric shocks and it is perfectly safe to mess around with it.



Yeah gas fire lighter was quite fun. Had a small spaz attack, which my mom saw and she said: were you messing around with the gas fire lighter?
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Well it depends on the person. How big are your Kahunas ? :p

If it was in another country where their electricity is of a different race (lol) then you'd probably not live to tell the tale.
 
Zapped myself a few times. Got a really bad shock when I was a kid when I put a live appliance in the dish water but I don't remember that one. Got a bit of a jolt off a live strip light fitting when I was about 18, plugged it in to see if it was working, it was, but when I picked it up to move it the case was live and I got a belt off it. Got a zap off a wet light switch, that made me jump. Worst one I've had I must have been 16/17 and I was into electronics and made some high output amplifiers. I had them wired up on the floor and picked one of the pcb's up without thinking. Naturally I took 110V DC across the chest and my hands literally clamped themselves on and I couldn't get the thing out my hands. That hurt and it hurt for days afterwards :eek:

Regularly get zapped off the ht leads on my car but that's kind of routine now :D
 
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