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- From: johnh@macadammq.edu.au (John Haddy)
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.055148.8779@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Sender: johnh@macadam (John Haddy)
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- Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
- References: <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:51:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu>, feliccia@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Nicholas J Feliccia) writes:
- |> ..
- |>
- |> Ok. I want to know from the net people. What is the largest voltage shock
- |> you have ever received (and survived.) I am not talking about rewiring
- |> a light switch. I am talking about kissing the flyback transformer.
- |>
- |> Nick.
- |> -------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> feliccia@rodan.acs.syr.edu
- |> N3FKS
- |>
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- Perhaps one shouldn't be bragging - it might prompt some bozo out there to try
- and better the "record". Surely the largest shock _anyone_ has ever received
- is already documented in the Guiness book of records: those few (extremely lucky)
- people who have been hit by lightning and survived.
-
- All that aside (:-), I did once accidentally touch both ends of a rheostat (one
- end in each hand) that had 600Vdc across it. The result was a trip across the
- lab, knocking several people to the floor on my way past. Or so I'm told - all
- I remember is suddenly being 20 feet away from where I was before. Severe shock
- set in about half an hour later (cold sweat, shivering, lack of muscle control
- etc.) - not a nice experience and one which I'm not too keen to repeat.
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