MNMikeW wrote:
"Just Plain Burr" wrote in message
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"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided
to mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting
into about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.
My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave
oven, and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than
from a TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched
backward across a room by a jolt like that was something that only
happened in cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile
of stainless steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought
much differently. Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to
about 200 for a couple minutes..)


I stuck a coat hanger in the sparkplug on an oil hot water tank onetime,
went across the room also.

I've had a few trips across a room backwards.

I put my tongue on a 9v battery before.



I spent 30 years working on tube amplifiers, up to about 35,000 Vdc on
some of them. I have never had an electric shock because when I work
with electricity I concentrate. Same level of concentration as driving
or shooting guns. Zero defects, zero tolerance.