Am Mon, 2003-03-31 um 02.24 schrieb Pigeon: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:36:39PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Son, 2003-03-30 um 22.31 schrieb Mike Beattie: [...] > It's said to be possible to receive a lethal shock from a car battery > if you use two buckets of salt water to make contact. I haven't made > any experiments with this arrangement yet. > > I've also heard of someone whose party trick was to stick a live 240V > cable on his tongue. > > > > Honestly? I'm quite capable of withstanding 6-8kV from an electric fence, > > Electric fences: When in the country, take care peeing in the dark. Hehe how true. > > Well that depends, <50mA can kill you if the current flows through your > > heart. > > FWIW RCDs are usually set to go at 30mA. The time involved makes a > difference too. I have a mate who blew a 5A fuse by shorting mains > through his body, from one hand to the other. 5A? Wow. This must be one lucky guy. > Some people have > survived direct lightning strikes (helps to be thoroughly soaked > first). Right. But i personally prefer death to having 80% of my skin burned :( > Maybe it's because they have misunderstood this that people > install electric showers without an RCD or even a decent earth. Darwin Award, anyone? :) > > > > There's nothing like repairing an AC adapter and getting the shock of > > > > your live because it has 3 (!!!) 1F capacitors in parallel. > > A whole farad? At mains voltage? Those are some BIG capacitors... Oh well, my technical english sucks ;) I was talking about an 230VAC to 12VDC converter. The 3 cpacitators were loaded with 230V anyways hehe. And yes, we have some spare "BIG" 1F capacitators lying around. They are the size of a Coke tin (umm i wonder if tin is the right word) > > > > Man 230VAC *do* hurt ;) > > 330VDC hurts more :-) Heh, i think so. I'm already getting used to 230V lol. My personal record is 4 shocks in one month *sigh*, stupid me. > > > > Friend of mine works at an electronics repair store here.. Once his boss was > > > working on an appliance, and forgot to turn the power off when he went away > > > to do something else. Came back, put his hand in the wrong place, and just > > > quietly said. "Oh, shit. Mains." > > Depends how well earthed you are, of course. After a while you develop > a sense for this... > > > Shit happens ;-) > > That too depends on the size of the jolt... HEHEHE My boss told me the story of a mechanic who should repair something at a transformer station at my company. Well there were two stations and he was told to repair the *left* one. Apparently he had a problem with left and right... That was *one* hell of an ugly death. And there was the cleaning crew which should remove dust from a transformer station. Same problem with left and right. One out of four survived. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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