Ever get an electric shock?

Duke Leonal Felmet

I did just a second ago. I plugged in my external hard drive and picked it up. Suddenly my hand and arm felt like they were magnets, the drive seemed both heavy and weightless, at the same time. It was messed up. Luckily, I was able to loosen my grip and drop the device. I reckon it was a dodgy plugboard, made a few blue sparks recently when plugging things in. To the bin.

Anyway, it's good to be alive!

W.Shakes-Beer

Jesus Christ OP. Would you like water, or a blanket or something?

Shocking stuff altogether.

Captain Chaos

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

Jesus Christ OP. Would you like water, or a blanket or something?

Shocking stuff altogether.

Water and an electric blanket would do the trick alright.

Dangerous Man

Yup. I suffered a horrible macro shock - up through my arm, across my chest and out of my other arm. I had to go to hospital to get checked out - all clear but frightening. The yelp that came out of me when it happened was blood curdling.

markc1184

Our instructor in FÁS used to think it was funny to gives us a little belt of electricity when we'd be working in our cubicles. He said we should get to know what we'd be working with.

Nothing major all the same.

WinstonOno

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I did just a second ago. I plugged in my external hard drive and picked it up. Suddenly my hand and arm felt like they were magnets, the drive seemed both heavy and weightless, at the same time. It was messed up. Luckily, I was able to loosen my grip and drop the device. I reckon it was a dodgy plugboard, made a few blue sparks recently when plugging things in. To the bin.

Anyway, it's good to be alive!

what do you mean by electric shock?????

k.p.h

I'v gotten a couple of raps over the years. Hurts TBH. But some amazing feeling after it, if you could bottle the feeling Red Bull would go out of business.

I can just picture it now .. "Give me a vodka and 2000 volts please..!"

biko

I've done the thing when you and some mates form a chain and the guy at the end grabs an electric fence. Doesn't really hurt as such but is a weird feeling alright.
If you do it just one guy it can be quite a jolt.

Like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1pSHzdahc

Sky King

Pfft. Indeed. You should be more like this guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIjC7DjoVe8

Jimoslimos

Yeah, stuck my fingers in an empty lamp socket (thought it was off). Wow it was .......intense and hurt.

Did it a few weeks later just to see if I had imagined it - same again. Like the greatest surge of adrenaline you've ever felt.

Jeez I was pretty stupid, would have been the unwitting recepient of a Darwin award had I not copped on.



Edit: Should point out I was 12 when I did this

MistyCheese

I get little shocks all the freakin' time. Got one from a wooden counter one time, somehow. And I was traveling down an escalator when I got a little shock from the (rubber) handrail.

cml387

That is the scariest video I have ever seen. I mean ever.

Chuck Stone

Coupla times.

ronan45

Yes its no big deal be it 110 or 220 volt its not nice but no big deal. Like getting a jab of a needle from a 220.
Used to repair 220 volt turbines lol happened many a time no biggy

mattjack

MistyCheese wrote: »

I get little shocks all the freakin' time. Got one from a wooden counter one time, somehow. And I was traveling down an escalator when I got a little shock from the (rubber) handrail.

em..from a wooden counter and off a rubber handrail..?

Super-Rush

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I did just a second ago. I plugged in my external hard drive and picked it up. Suddenly my hand and arm felt like they were magnets, the drive seemed both heavy and weightless, at the same time. It was messed up. Luckily, I was able to loosen my grip and drop the device. I reckon it was a dodgy plugboard, made a few blue sparks recently when plugging things in. To the bin.

Anyway, it's good to be alive!

Is it a HP hard drive?

Sky King

cml387 wrote: »

That is the scariest video I have ever seen. I mean ever.

This one is scarier imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyilT_xdp8k

nimrod86

I was on a school trip yesterday to a farm, we spent most of the day forming a line and touching an electric fence! letting the current flow through all of us!

MistyCheese

mattjack wrote: »

em..from a wooden counter and off a rubber handrail..?

Yes.

whubee

Maybe it was just your chi.

Thatnastyboy

Got a few raps in my time,

Got a couple of belts from damaged spark plug & coil leads, they fairly lift you!

Touched the pin of a half-in-half out plug too, hurts also!

And manys the electric fence to the bolox when thinking i was taller than i was!

Johro

^ ^
Peed on an electric fence once. Won't be doing it again.

Jimoslimos

Johro wrote: »

^ ^
Peed on an electric fence once. Won't be doing it again.

I call BS on this, complete urban myth

Johro

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I call BS on this, complete urban myth

Call it what ya like. It wasn't too bad, wouldn't call it enjoyable either.

RonMexico

Grabbed an electric fence once. Lifted me off the crowd and landed on my back. Felt like I'd been kicked in the chest by a horse. Horrible.

Latchy

A few times .


My fav electric shock moement is when you brush past another person with just the faintest of touch and you get the ' electric human touch shock ' .

Sky King

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I call BS on this, complete urban myth

You serious? Pissing on an electric fence give you a sensation like getting an almighty root up the A.

/first hand experience

Try it if you don't believe it.

Johro

Also, doing a bit of building work on a house in Rosslare once, stopped for a ciggie, was leaning against the wall in the doorway and saw a couple of the guys in the yard, staring at me, I went wtf?- They said 'Can't you feel that?'
Me: 'Feel what?'
Them: The f#ckin walls are live, getting shocks of some of em'.
Put my hand on the wall, felt a slight tingle alright, then put a tester to the wall in the hallway and it read around 90-something volts.
Turned out the boss decided to give his 16 yr old idiot nephew a job for the day slabbing the ceilings, and he'd put screws through the lighting wires, and with the walls and ceilings being plastered and all... Eejit.

crosstownk

RonMexico wrote: »

Felt like I'd been kicked in the chest by a horse. Horrible.

I had exactly the same from messing around with an uncovered live plug about 25 years ago. It threw me back about 2 metres. I got up again and messed with the plug - with more respect.

Since then I've been very cautious with electricity. I switch the power off at the fuse board before attempting any repairs.

The shock form a car door or some other 'static' shock is fcuk all compared to a proper blast from 220VAC.

Sky King

RESPECT THE POWER OF ELECTRICITY!

/Jonathan Ryan

stoneill

380v, across two phases from a three phase system.
Some idiot performing maintenance on a heated cloth press had exposed cable lying on the floor still connect to power supply.
No LOTO, No safety notice, no barriers, no indication that the cable was live.
Current went in the palm of my hand and blew out the tips of two fingers and my wrist. I was stuck to the cable for a good 20 seconds, I could feel the alternating in my head - like a buzzing. I had to stand on the cable and wrench my hand off the end of the cable. It took about 8 weeks of dressings and bandaging to recover the burn injuries. I felt tired all the time, shuffling like an old man. It took another six months for the bald spot on my crown to grow back.
Scars are impressive though.
But I knew that I was extremely lucky that the current went in and out through my arm and not across my chest. It only takes 50 miliamps to kill you if it is across the heart.

mattjack

MistyCheese wrote: »

Yes.

neither conduct electricity...im just sayin.

Seren_

Not a fan of the countryside OP? Dem electric fences.

My dog got a belt off one once, thought he'd been trampled by the cattle the yelps that were coming out of him.

Johro

Sky King wrote: »

RESPECT THE POWER OF ELECTRICITY!

/Jonathan Ryan

Yeah.. I decide to have a go at this broken television once, genius at anything electronic that I am, I basically took off the back panel and hoped to find something obvious, didn't find anything, then put a phase tester to some points on a circuit board and WHAMMO!, big flash, house went dark, and half of the tester had melted away:D
I learned a few things since then.

Irish Guitarist

I tried to change the bulb in my bedroom when I was about fifteen. I couldn't unscrew the bulb so I thought to myself "maybe if I stick a scissors in here it will help loosen it".

I stuck the scissors in and my entire body started shaking. I thought someone had grabbed me from behind but then I realised what had happened and thought "so that's what an electric shock feels like".

mattjack

Johro wrote: »

Yeah.. I decide to have a go at this broken television once, genius at anything electronic that I am, I basically took off the back panel and hoped to find something obvious, didn't find anything, then put a phase tester to some points on a circuit board and WHAMMO!, big flash, house went dark, and half of the tester had melted away:D
I learned a few things since then.

before or after you entered the secure mental facility..?

eirn

When I was about 10 I was walking through a stream with a friend on her family farm, at the side of the bank there was an electric fence that we had to go under, she said it was always off. She grabbed it to lift it up and slipped under.
A moment later I grabbed it with both hands, while standing barefoot in water, and got an almighty shock! I let out a huge scream, and burst into tears. She was convinced I was messing because she only just touched it before me.
Turned out later that her dad had just turned it on for the first time at the precise moment I grabbed it!

Johro

mattjack wrote: »

before or after you entered the secure mental facility..?

Em... Both.

mattjack

Johro wrote: »

Em... Both.

I like your way of thinking..

Super-Rush

I got my brother to stick his tongue on a square battery a few weeks ago.

Silly chap.

mawk

stoneill wrote: »

380v, across two phases from a three phase system.
Some idiot performing maintenance on a heated cloth press had exposed cable lying on the floor still connect to power supply.
No LOTO, No safety notice, no barriers, no indication that the cable was live.
Current went in the palm of my hand and blew out the tips of two fingers and my wrist. I was stuck to the cable for a good 20 seconds, I could feel the alternating in my head - like a buzzing. I had to stand on the cable and wrench my hand off the end of the cable. It took about 8 weeks of dressings and bandaging to recover the burn injuries. I felt tired all the time, shuffling like an old man. It took another six months for the bald spot on my crown to grow back.
Scars are impressive though.
But I knew that I was extremely lucky that the current went in and out through my arm and not across my chest. It only takes 50 miliamps to kill you if it is across the heart.

Horrible experience I can only imagine.. But as you noted, lucky outcome.

3phase ain't something to arse about with. Know of a few nasty cases. I shock myself now and again. I HATE being shocked.

Cill Dara Abu

Oh I got an electric shock alright, last Wednesday when I got an esb bill for €195!

Johro

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Oh I got an electric shock alright, last Wednesday when I got an esb bill for €195!

Yeah that kinda puts things in perspective alright.. My near death pales in comparison.

crosstownk

super-rush wrote: »

I got my brother to stick his tongue on a square battery a few weeks ago.

That's just a mild tingle. I use that to test a battery's strength. Hardly considered a shock. For comparison it's like drinking one pint compared to eight pints and a bottle of vodka.

upandcumming

I got 110v in NY. It was fine, but it was a surreal experience, I could feel it go up my arm, and dissipating into my head. Was great!

Duke Leonal Felmet

Yeah, I got a mad rush after it. I feel like I have a slightly sprained wrist now. ****ing weird experience.

Solnskaya

Sky King wrote: »

Pfft. Indeed. You should be more like this guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIjC7DjoVe8

those guys are some of the highest paid workers going- savage job imo. The chopper pilots need to be absolute rocks to keep the whirley so still and so close to the high tension cables.. electrocuted, yep, loads of times at work, and I absolutely hate it. Funniest time was at home - the dog was chewing on the TV lead, and I gave out to it and went over to check the damage. Oh how the kids laughed when funny daddy got stuck to the floor as he examined the lead with his bare hands. Feckin dog.

Yep, twice, maybe three times. Most recently was when I was opening an Antec HTPC, the PSU was exposed so when I put my finger under the lid I ended up touching something inside it. I was able to get my hand away before I got any real damage.

The other time was stupid; I was dismantling a disposable camera while the flash was charged up. Brief but absolutely frightening, I could feel it all through my arms.

cocoshovel

Was at a cliff side one time and enjoying the view I forgot about the electric fence in front of me. place me two hands on it and went to slouch over it and relax. After about 3 seconds I remembered. "oh wait this is a-HAAAAAAAAA" It felt like someone busted me in the chest with a sledge hammer. It didn't really hurt, but it was a different/strange experience that I never felt before. Winded me at first but a few seconds later the feeling of relief flowing through my body was almost enjoyable.

barone

when we were kids we used to touch a light pole across the road,and at the same time touch a metal garden gate beside it..


buzzzzzzzzz up the arm..kept doin it though

nicechick!

Yes!!!!!!!!! As a child I couldn't unplug something so decided to get my aunties needle stick ... you guessed the rest thankfully all ok the electrics cut out before I was fryed but did get a slight shock