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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.092316.17562@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Jul25.030622.897@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:23:16 GMT
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- moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
- : >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.
-
- Yep, voltage means little. Both my high school teacher and I tangled with
- the Tesla Coil that I built. It, in theory, produced 250,000 volts. Of
- course, the current at that voltage measured in the microamps.
-
- : 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.
-
- I still have the burn scars on my right had from shorting out the HV leads
- of a tv transformer. It is also the worst shock I ever received.
-
- Bill
-