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- From: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: shocking stories
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1644.10571@channel1>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 01:59:03 EST
- Reply-To: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
- Distribution: sci
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- NJF>Ok. I want to know from the net people. What is the largest voltage shock
- NJF>you have ever received (and survived.) I am not talking about rewiring
- NJF>a light switch. I am talking about kissing the flyback transformer.
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- I was once repairing a defibrilator and got myself across the main
- capacitor bank. Enough for 10, 400 joule shocks since I dropped the
- voltage from 450 down to about 25. Blew me off the lab stool and
- across the room, and I was shaking for the rest of the day.
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- Don't try this at home.
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