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02-20-2008, 04:10 PM
| | Not Actually Knighted... Yet! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | | I Got Shocked (mmm power outlets...)
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I was fixing my power adaptor for my computer and I had the case off, and it was all finished and everything, then after I plugged it in and tested it (with the case still off) I grabbed it to unplug the power cord, and I guess I touched the power and ground or something... everything tasted orange for a second and I screamed, and my hand got some tiny cuts on it... My hand still tingles and my tongue feels weird right now... I've got a little bit of a headache too...
I'm just glad I was able to let go and didn't die!!!
mmm orange...
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02-20-2008, 04:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | You tasted orange when you got a shock? 
I usually taste purple. 
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02-20-2008, 04:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | The shock shorted his eyes to his tongue. Soon he'll be seeing bitter.
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02-20-2008, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Cork City, Ireland | | | Do yourself a favour and get a check up. Might even get a free ECG out of it. Blew myself up with some ripped electrical cable there over the Summer, all grand afterwards but they were talking me thru the "what ifs" while I was watigin for ECG results, made me well happy I checked myself out afterwards. Can never be too safe.
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02-20-2008, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hollow Man  The shock shorted his eyes to his tongue. Soon he'll be seeing bitter. | I see it all the time...when my girlfriend is mad at me 
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02-20-2008, 04:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | only nancy boys complain about getting shocked.
That said, I cried when I got shocked....
This was 2 years ago. I was 14. |
02-20-2008, 05:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winnipeg, Canada | | | I've electricuted myself a couple times. Once when I was five, and I plugged a cord into a socket while still wet. That hurt. Again when I was 12. That hurt. Once last year. That hurt.
I'm not a safe person.
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02-20-2008, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | I've been shocked more than two dozen times, I barely feel it now. The last time was over the weekend. I was rewiring an electrical outlet in a house that I'm remodeling. Since the house was purchased 3 months ago, this circuit had been dead. Naturally, as soon as I touch it, it's live.
The very first time I got shocked, I was 5 years old, and it was in church. A sign, perhaps?
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02-20-2008, 05:50 PM
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02-20-2008, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | The worst shock I ever got was when I was 14. My friend tried to start his mini-bike as I was removing the spark plug wire. It was only 6V, but it hurt like hell.
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02-20-2008, 06:00 PM
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02-20-2008, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Atoz The worst shock I ever got was when I was 14. My friend tried to start his mini-bike as I was removing the spark plug wire. It was only 6V, but it hurt like hell. | The ignition system bumps the 6V up to several thousand to fire the plug. That makes for a nice zap  |
02-20-2008, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker The ignition system bumps the 6V up to several thousand to fire the plug. That makes for a nice zap | Well, that explains a lot, while at the same time exposing my complete ignorance of how an ignition system operates.
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02-20-2008, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Atoz Well, that explains a lot, while at the same time exposing my complete ignorance of how an ignition system operates. | Capacitors. Same way SVT's are louder than hell......and the reason tazers knock people out using a 9v battery.
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02-20-2008, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim Cole Capacitors. Same way SVT's are louder than hell......and the reason tazers knock people out using a 9v battery. | ...and why you bleed your cathode ray tube before replacing it. Ahhh... it makes sense now. I guess I can't say I never learned anything on TB.
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02-20-2008, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim Cole | That picture is awesome.
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02-20-2008, 07:49 PM
| | | | I once repaired a golf cart which, I found out a little late, had a melted motor which shorted the battery through the chassis. I'd try to unscrew some piece with a metal ratchet, my arm would go numb, I'd say 'what the hell', change arm, try again. That was not the winning solution. |
02-20-2008, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Lalabadie I once repaired a golf cart which, I found out a little late, had a melted motor which shorted the battery through the chassis. I'd try to unscrew some piece with a metal ratchet, my arm would go numb, I'd say 'what the hell', change arm, try again. That was not the winning solution. | I didn't know Homer Simpson posted here.
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02-20-2008, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I didn't know Homer Simpson posted here.
lowsound | haha it was a low-amped 48 volts, nothing to run away from. That's like, 1/6250th of a powerful tazer gun in terms of voltage. It makes your arm tingle. |
02-20-2008, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Leinad Do yourself a favour and get a check up. Might even get a free ECG out of it. Blew myself up with some ripped electrical cable there over the Summer, all grand afterwards but they were talking me thru the "what ifs" while I was watigin for ECG results, made me well happy I checked myself out afterwards. Can never be too safe. | hmmm... I need to go to the doctor anyways... might as well eh? my hand is STILL tingly... Quote:
Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker | I've licked 9V batteries before, no big deal, but how do you shock yourself with a welder? never done that... another bad one I have had, I licked the output of a 9V power adapter for my effects board... I guess that produces more ampage than a 9V Battery... my tongue tingled for a while
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A few days ago by 14 year old got zapped while welding. He through a hissy fit and went in the house. He can wipe out on a skateboard and take 50 paintball hits but a little lightnin' gets him upset 
