After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.



I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.



So Mote It Be


--
Burr
Big, Lean, Mean and Clean
I'll be lifting until they pry the
bar from my cold dead hands
Adventure before Dementia

Just Plain Burr wrote:

After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.

I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.

Glad you're OK.

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.

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't make it
to dementia.

"dxAce"

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't
make it
to dementia.



Hang up and I'll call

OK

Just Plain Burr wrote:

"dxAce"

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't
make it
to dementia.



Hang up and I'll call

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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..)

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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.

"Just Plain Burr" wrote in message
.. .

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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.

That is the way I test my 9 volt batteries.A few days ago, at a pawn
shop, I bought a hand held EXTECH IR Thermomenter.It works great, has a
9 volt battery.
cuhulin
.................................................. ....
Theres a pawn shop on a corrrner in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvaniaaaa,,,,, and
I walk up and down beneath the clock,,,,,,, took herrr dinnnnin,, took
herrr doncinnnn,,, till herrr blue eyes were shininnnnn,,, and I just
got to get five orrr tennnn,,,,,,,
.................................................. ...

tHat reminds me, Big Joe Polka Show comes on the RFD channel at 6:00 PM
this evening.I need to go ahead on and put a check mark on there so my
tv set will automatically turn it on.
cuhulin

MNMikeW wrote:
"Just Plain Burr" wrote in message
.. .
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...
"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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.

Brenda Ann wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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..)

Like ya say, you think it only happens in a cartoon, but when it happens to you,
it becomes a very, very fast cartoon!

Another story I related to Cuzz Burr this morning had to do with a fellow who
removed what he thought was a defective pressure gauge from a fuel tank access
cover that was in our workspace. The tank itself was directly below us.

The gauge was indeed defective, tank still pressurized, and at the time all our
fire control gear, radar stuff, computers, were fired up.

A few hairy and scary moments there.

I still remember the very shocked look on my fellow sailors face as he tried to
plug the flow of fuel that was spraying out all over the place.