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- From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.030622.897@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:47:46 GMT
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- >In article <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu>,
- >
- > 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.
-
- Largest voltage? Probably one winter when I scuffed my feet across the
- rug or pet the cat vigorously and touched the doorknob or something...
- Thousands of volts but no current.
-
- Worst shock: I had the power transformer from an old tube TV set. I was
- testing the filaments of some tubes, and the leads I thought were the 6.3V
- windings were the ones for the B+ plate supply. Either 350 volts or 700 volts
- at a not insignificant current arm to arm, depending whether I grabbed the
- center tap lead or not. Threw the tube I was testing across the room...
- I wasn't hurt somehow.
-
- Then there was one time that could have been bad. I was walking home after a
- severe thunderstorm and I felt a tingling in my legs. Then I noticed the live
- powerline on the ground nearby, quietly buzzing and sparking away. Remembering
- reading about step charges once, I walked away taking _tiny_ steps. There was
- a police cruiser at the other end of the street parked across the street until
- the electric co. got there and took care of it. Stupid cop made no effort to
- keep people coming the other way out of danger.
-
- -Mike
-