Have you ever been electrocuted?

KantenKlaar said:
You think it is funny to climb on the Vok bandwagon? Be your own man. Paternoster is a tiny fishing village without even a police station.
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It has a police station.

Do you really live and work there?

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vokazu said:
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Phone and ask. You think evverything on the internet is correct. 8 Libraries, Harold Krumm is a satellite of Langebaan Library. And if you want to count satellites in, you should add another 2.
 
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vokazu said:
I've been electrocuted twice in my life, and I wonder how I survived both of them.

The first one was when I was about 6. At that time students take turn to ring the bell for our school. So one day it was my turn, and I had to climb a chair to reach the switch for the bell. I vaguely remember that somehow the switch was located very close to a lamp holder and the lamp holder didn't have a lamp in it. It was so hard for me to reach the bell switch even with me standing on the tip of my toes, so somehow my hand touched the empty lamp socket. When I touched it I was very shocked. A very powerful vibration shook my whole body violently, and I quickly moved my hand away from the lamp holder. Miraculously I was still standing on the chair and I was ok.

The second one happened maybe one or two years after the first one. I was curious what would happen if I touch a hot electric iron using my metal ballpoint refill. The electric iron we had at that time was a really old one that looked really dodgy. The electric iron was plugged in the power outlet and was hot. I held the ballpoint refill with my fingers and touched the hot electric iron with it. A violent vibration jolted my whole body and that electric shock actually lifted me off the ground, lol. My feet was in the air and then back on the ground again soon after.

Those electrocutions felt so violent, hot and scary!!!!!!
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i like the concept of the 2nd experiment! :-D
(did you change the experimental protocol for the 2nd round?... like did you try ironing the metal ballpoint refill, for instance?)

i got electrocuted once when i was 2... probably one of my earliest memories! :oops:
(yeah i know... been 'like this' since)
i don't remember the details... only vaguely the location... but i remember this impression of feeling a sudden violet shock in my whole body!
(like you couldn't actually feel where it was coming from)
the electric plugs were not as secure as they are today back ... and i touched it...... i guess because why not, right? :X3:
(my mum pretends i was too young to remember it today... but i believe i do)

also felt mild shocks on other occasions, like unwillingly touching a car battery, or touching the electric fence surrounding a field with cattle...
last one was part of an 'experiment' with other kids... the idea of this wonderful (unsupervised!) :X3: experiment was to check 'what happens when the first kid of a chain of kids touch the fence'...... but i don't remember our conclusions (sadly, it didn't lead to any publication in a peer-reviewed journal... but at least it led to a TTW post today, which is, after all, also 'peer reviewed', isn't it?).
 
The easiest way to experiment a soft electrocution is charging your phone with a deteriorated peeled cable, plugging it and holding it by its damaged part. It feels like a strong tickle.
 
vive le beau jeu ! said:
i like the concept of the 2nd experiment! :-D
(did you change the experimental protocol for the 2nd round?... like did you try ironing the metal ballpoint refill, for instance?)

i got electrocuted once when i was 2... probably one of my earliest memories! :oops:
(yeah i know... been 'like this' since)
i don't remember the details... only vaguely the location... but i remember this impression of feeling a sudden violet shock in my whole body!
(like you couldn't actually feel where it was coming from)
the electric plugs were not as secure as they are today back ... and i touched it...... i guess because why not, right? :X3:
(my mum pretends i was too young to remember it today... but i believe i do)

also felt mild shocks on other occasions, like unwillingly touching a car battery, or touching the electric fence surrounding a field with cattle...
last one was part of an 'experiment' with other kids... the idea of this wonderful (unsupervised!) :X3: experiment was to check 'what happens when the first kid of a chain of kids touch the fence'...... but i don't remember our conclusions (sadly, it didn't lead to any publication in a peer-reviewed journal... but at least it led to a TTW post today, which is, after all, also 'peer reviewed', isn't it?).
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It seems creative people are more likely to have been electrocuted when they were little kids.
 
vokazu said:
It seems creative people are more likely to have been electrocuted when they were little kids.
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Kenape? You just made that up.

It seems posters who post often about random topics on a tennis forum are more likely to have been electrocuted. Is it a sign that their brains were ‘fried’?
 
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socallefty said:
Kenape? You just made that up.

It seems posters who post often about random topics on a tennis forum are more likely to have been electrocuted. Is it a sign that their brains were ‘fried’?
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It means they have life outside tennis and not staying up all day and night on TTW and watching Tennis from Saturday 3:11 PM to Sunday 5:23 AM.
 
Tube Amps use direct current.
Tubes like KT88s run at about 250 volts all the way Upto a max of 800 volts plate voltage.

Here's the insides of my home built amp during diagnostics / setting up

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Yes that's 502 volts DC.
Top tip always keep one hand behind your back when fiddling. That way the current doesn't flow across your heart and stop it.

Direct current is said to be more likely to cause death because it's a continuous flow. You can't pull away as easily so it toasts you properly.

Bigger amps can use Kilovolt tubes!

No I've never had a serious
shock from an amp, or anything else.

I've not looked into why a few survived the horrible electric chair.
Operator incompetence I would think.
Relatively small voltages and currents will kill you applied in the right place for the right amount of time.
 
speedysteve said:
Direct current is said to be more likely to cause death because it's a continuous flow. You can't pull away as easily so it toasts you properly.
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I didn't know that. Maybe that's how I survived AC current shocks, because it's not a continuous flow and I was able to pull away easily.


DC is far more dangerous. An electric shock sends the muscles in your body into spasm, including the heart. With DC that spasm is constant and often fatal whereas with AC current the spasm is more cyclical as the current ebbs and flows. As an electrician we often joked that with an AC shock you have 50 times per second to pull away but jokes aside DC is more dangerous. Hope this helps.
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At the same voltage, is DC or AC more dangerous for humans?

Answer (1 of 18): DC has the potential to be worse for electrocution than AC. Sources vary, but DC current is said to have higher capability to freeze a person or animal into a static “no let go” position because its polarity is constant. Unlike AC current that tends to make people collapse whil...
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I put some tweezers into an electric wall socket. I vibrated a little, I felt a little warmer, I smelled like a burnt electric metal and it felt like it was inside my nostrils, not coming from the socket, like I was smelling my burnt body, but it was internal, not external. I think I was around 5 years old.
 
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jimmy8 said:
I put some tweezers into an electric wall socket. I vibrated a little, I felt a little warmer, I smelled like a burnt electric metal and it felt like in was inside my nostrils, not coming from the socket, like I was smelling my burnt body, but it was internal, not external. I think I was around 5 years old.
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So was my first experience with Heavy Metal.
 
Sudacafan said:
So bad I didn't remember to electrocute myself for that special occasion.
Can you please remind me for the next eclipse?
Thank you.
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Imagine if OP got electrocuted while eating glow worms.

Or imagine OP starting a thread, what music do you like to listen to while getting electrocuted.
 
vokazu said:
Do you think our close encounter with electric current made us skinny and never gain a lot of weight? Maybe the electric current made us born again after a brief death so that we keep looking young and handsome?
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Any tips on finding the right voltage for fountain-of-youth effect?
 
jimmy8 said:
I put some tweezers into an electric wall socket. I vibrated a little, I felt a little warmer, I smelled like a burnt electric metal and it felt like it was inside my nostrils, not coming from the socket, like I was smelling my burnt body, but it was internal, not external. I think I was around 5 years old.
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Respect.
 
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