I went to parent teacher conferences today and my son's robotics teacher had some circuit stuff on the table: a nice multi tester, some caps, circuit boards, and a couple 9 volt batteries.
I got busy right off messing with the multi tester and the parts. I just let my wife do the talking while I tested the 9 volts to see which read hotter and then see if I could tell the difference with the "lick test". (I couldn't, really, but they were pretty close on the meter anyway.)
Anyway, the guy tells me at the end of the conference that maybe 32 people a year die from doing just what I was doing.
"Hey kid, don't put your tounge on that!"
We all do it, right? pull a battery out of the bottom of the bag hoping for a good one cause that favorite box just crapped out, and give it a lick to see if it's good? Jeez, I coulda been killed?!!
So I do a little web search, and of course, a Talkbass search: COOL! nothing on Talkbass, I've got a scoop!
Anyhow, here's a guy who did manage to kill himself with a 9 volt battery while messing with a multi tester: 1999 Darwin Award: Resistance is Futile
You can see just how close I came to buying the farm right there in the school gym at parent teacher conference. Good thing I didn't stick the probes deep into my thumbs to test my bodily resistance! Luckily they have those "break the glass in case of heart attack" de fib things on the wall.
The rest of the hype seems to be mostly urban myth, but has anybody here on TB killed themselves licking a 9 volt?
I got busy right off messing with the multi tester and the parts. I just let my wife do the talking while I tested the 9 volts to see which read hotter and then see if I could tell the difference with the "lick test". (I couldn't, really, but they were pretty close on the meter anyway.)
Anyway, the guy tells me at the end of the conference that maybe 32 people a year die from doing just what I was doing.
"Hey kid, don't put your tounge on that!"
We all do it, right? pull a battery out of the bottom of the bag hoping for a good one cause that favorite box just crapped out, and give it a lick to see if it's good? Jeez, I coulda been killed?!!
So I do a little web search, and of course, a Talkbass search: COOL! nothing on Talkbass, I've got a scoop!
Anyhow, here's a guy who did manage to kill himself with a 9 volt battery while messing with a multi tester: 1999 Darwin Award: Resistance is Futile
You can see just how close I came to buying the farm right there in the school gym at parent teacher conference. Good thing I didn't stick the probes deep into my thumbs to test my bodily resistance! Luckily they have those "break the glass in case of heart attack" de fib things on the wall.
The rest of the hype seems to be mostly urban myth, but has anybody here on TB killed themselves licking a 9 volt?
