I got electrocuted

ha i got a shock once im an electrician and i was testing a warhouse mains board and when your testinng it you have a piece of cable wired into the earth bar and you switch of a circuit and place the earth cable into the live side of the circuit well i wasnt payin attention and i put the cable in a live 400v circiut and bang it shot me across the room and shot pieces of melted metal in my face turned 4 of my fingers black and it blew a 400 amp mains incomer fuse god it hurt

PANGcake said:

I am a handyman but when I'm baked I do stupid things...
I'm currently wiring a new "extension" from a socket in the hallway into my growroom. I put the electric plug in the socket only to mesure the length of the extension wire. Cut the wire and started to "mount" it to the wall. When I was done with that it was time to connect it to the fan I was gonna mount. I pulled the wire to straighten it out and..ZAP
220 volts through my right hand I can tell u guys and gurls I got pretty shook up. It felt kinda like a burnt sensation wich pretty fast went to a tingeling all over my body...and left me with a stiff right hand and still 15mins after the ZAP my thumb, index finger and "long finger" are still pretty stiff.

I'm telling u all bout this experience in hope to raise the safety question...and of course for few laughs
BE CAREFULL WHEN YOU'RE DOING ALL KIND OF BUILDING/WIRING IN YOUR GROW ROOM, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE BAKED!

//CaL

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LOL Its happened to the best of use. I have gotten stitches on more than one occassion from growroom mishaps! lol

Old Toker said:

I am an amateur radio operator and on the day of my accident, I was working alone on the top section of my new 80-foot tower. When I had completed my work, I discovered that I had, over the course of several trips up the tower, brought up about 300 pounds of tools and spare hardware. ......
Just kidding... but this thread did get a little sidetracked.. thought I would add an old story i heard.

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I heard that story also, I believe the guy won a Darwin award for it.
as a side note more on track w/ the thread,DC voltage can also hurt or kill. have been zapped many times by 115 vac and a few times by ballasts but the worst shock came from a telephone line. back in the early eighties,ring voltage could hit 200 vdc, I was kneeling on a dryer (in shorts) and dropped my wire stripper. in a hurry,I stripped my last wire(live) w/ my teeth.the phone rang.I woke up on the basement floor a few seconds later hurting like hell!!! when I recovered, I put a meter on the line & called it.over 190 vdc!! I never stripped a phone wire again w/ my teeth.
I work at a factory from time to time that does metal plating,they have a copper bar about 1x2 running across the ceiling that carries 6vdc w/ about 10,000 amps, they show a training video of a guy that touched a similar busbar who died,the juice literally boils the water out of your body.left him looking like a mummy.

nathanshair said:

ha i got a shock once im an electrician and i was testing a warhouse mains board and when your testinng it you have a piece of cable wired into the earth bar and you switch of a circuit and place the earth cable into the live side of the circuit well i wasnt payin attention and i put the cable in a live 400v circiut and bang it shot me across the room and shot pieces of melted metal in my face turned 4 of my fingers black and it blew a 400 amp mains incomer fuse god it hurt

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OUCH! Some crazy stories...man I'm glad u all still alive to tell them

Fuzzotany said:

Disconnect power before messing with it!

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I was installing an extra breaker in the box of my basement panel. I turned off the main and started pushing the breaker into the box. since the main was off, and it was night time it was completely dark so I was working with a flashlight in my mouth. As I was pushing the breaker into the box I let the bare copper wire touch the main line coming into the box and took a real good shock. The flashlight fell out of my mouth, hit the ground and went out. So there I am, standing there in pitch dark, stunned after taking a hit off of a 200 amp main and my first thought was "so is this heaven or hell?", and then a couple minutes later my second one was "gee... maybe I just dropped the flashlight!" Obviously it was the later, but a hard way to learn a lesson about electricity!!!

Jed

cowboylogic said:

LOL Its happened to the best of use. I have gotten stitches on more than one occassion from growroom mishaps! lol

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Even the sun has its spots!

"And if we're being technical here, you wouldn't be typing or breathing for that matter if you were electrocuted. Kind of like saying I went swimming yesterday and drowned but I'm ok now."

an ex gf of mine "drowned" and died.
she was pulled from the cold water and brought back later on with no permanent damage. she was around 5 years old when that happened.

PANGcake said:

English is not my mother tongue but this is what i googled and fer sure it say it's not correct, but it also says it's used to describe an accidental injury.

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Electrocution is the stopping of life (determined by a stopped heart) by any type of electric shock. In the vernacular, the term electrocution is used to mean:

• accidental injury, death, murder or suicide by electric shock
• deliberate execution by electric shock, usually involving an electric chair; the word "electrocution" is a portmanteau for "electrical execution"

Electrocution is also frequently used to refer to any electric shock received but is technically incorrect. This choice in definition varies from dictionary to dictionary.[1] [2]
Death can occur from any shock that carries enough current. Small currents (40 mA - 700 mA) usually trigger fibrillation in the heart which is reversible via defibrillator, but large currents (> 1 A) cause permanent damage via burns, and cellular damage. The heart is most devastated by foreign electricity, next is the brain.[citation needed] Women are more susceptible to macroshock electrocution than men, but men are equally susceptible to microshock electrocution

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This I posted on page 2...

God Dam said:

"And if we're being technical here, you wouldn't be typing or breathing for that matter if you were electrocuted. Kind of like saying I went swimming yesterday and drowned but I'm ok now."

an ex gf of mine "drowned" and died.
she was pulled from the cold water and brought back later on with no permanent damage. she was around 5 years old when that happened.

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Read above!

God Dam said:

"And if we're being technical here, you wouldn't be typing or breathing for that matter if you were electrocuted. Kind of like saying I went swimming yesterday and drowned but I'm ok now."

an ex gf of mine "drowned" and died.
she was pulled from the cold water and brought back later on with no permanent damage. she was around 5 years old when that happened.

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That's a near drowning. If you drown or get electrocuted, you are dead. How hard is that to understand?