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- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <H0TmoB8w164w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 06:25:40 NZT
- References: <1992Jul26.092316.17562@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS
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- billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
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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 vo
- > : 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.
- >
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- a co=worker at a shortwave transitting station I was working at put his
- hand on top of one of the small transmitters while he was tuneing it up.
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- The RF jumped about 1 foot to his wrist and grounded out thru his other
- arm. Amazingly he survived, but he had very nasty burns right down to the
- bone on one arm. Cooked flesh looks and smells disgusting!
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- dogbowl at The Dawghaus BBS ( +64 6 357-9245 )
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