Have you ever had an electric shock?

[vshah]

its been about an hour since i got hit with 240volts my arm is still kinda tingly, i am typing this with one hand

third time its happened to me...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Just a regular outlet, unplugging a crappy old handheld drill at school when working on a Rube Goldberg machine.

For more electric fun, lick a 9V battery (I know most people have tried it, but for anyone that hasn't)

 

[TechnoKid]

I've gotten shocked with 300+volts, was unscrewing a fluorescent light bulb, the circuline kind with a built-in ballast, and the damned thing shocked me. I say 300+ because I have no idea what voltage the ballast sends out.

 

[mobobuff]

Yeah, when I was little and my fingers were small enough to wedge between the prongs on a plug, I'd bridge them with my index finger and then plug it into a socket. BZZZT! Made my whole arm feel like hot rubber.

There was also this toy I had, that had a large sheet of photosensitive material (aka glow-in-the-dark) and with it was a device that produced a very bright flash. You used these in combination to "burn" shadows into the material. When I took apart the flash device, I removed the bulb and somehow pressed the flash button when my thumb was wedged into the bulb fixture. The current that that little thing could produce was insane. Needless to say I kept shocking myself like that until I started to get a little nauseas.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Yeah, when I was little and my fingers were small enough to wedge between the prongs on a plug, I'd bridge them with my index finger and then plug it into a socket. BZZZT! Made my whole arm feel like hot rubber.

There was also this toy I had, that had a large sheet of photosensitive material (aka glow-in-the-dark) and with it was a device that produced a very bright flash. You used these in combination to "burn" shadows into the material. When I took apart the flash device, I removed the bulb and somehow pressed the flash button when my thumb was wedged into the bulb fixture. The current that that little thing could produce was insane. Needless to say I kept shocking myself like that until I started to get a little nauseas.

you sir, are insane

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Yeah, when I was little and my fingers were small enough to wedge between the prongs on a plug, I'd bridge them with my index finger and then plug it into a socket. BZZZT! Made my whole arm feel like hot rubber.

There was also this toy I had, that had a large sheet of photosensitive material (aka glow-in-the-dark) and with it was a device that produced a very bright flash. You used these in combination to "burn" shadows into the material. When I took apart the flash device, I removed the bulb and somehow pressed the flash button when my thumb was wedged into the bulb fixture. The current that that little thing could produce was insane. Needless to say I kept shocking myself like that until I started to get a little nauseas.

you sir, are insane

The electricity keeps me warm *twitch*

 

[AreaCode707]

Electric fencing for our horse.

 

[blahblah99]

I touched the back of a television picture tube and shocked myself once.. fortunately it was unpowered and only the leftover charge got me... but my whole arm was numb for a few hours.

 

[Eli]

Many times. Usually high voltage, low current though...

Never been shocked by 240v mains. Don't want to either.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
I've gotten shocked with 300+volts, was unscrewing a fluorescent light bulb, the circuline kind with a built-in ballast, and the damned thing shocked me. I say 300+ because I have no idea what voltage the ballast sends out.

More like 4-5kvolts.

Maybe more, maybe less.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Oh yeah, one more time I almost forgot to disconnect the electric wires inside the gorilla... cage (I guess it's a cage... habitat?). Anyway, I work at the Milwaukee County Zoo in the horticulture department and our duties range from cutting down trees with chainsaws to planting and watering flowerbeds to caring for the plants inside the bird and primate buildings.

Anyway, there's some electrical wiring in the gorilla area to keep them from getting to the back area where there's a ladder we have to climb up to water some plants that are on a ledge about 15 feet above their concrete habitat area. I'm not sure what kind of power they have running through it, but luckily I remembered to turn it off in time

 

[StrangerGuy]

Touched a exposed live 240V pin of a 3-pin plug. My hand vibrated like crazy, but nothing serious happened afterwards.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Nothing like getting shocked in good ole 2005

 

[WelshBloke]

I was wiring up some wall downlighters. There were already some old ones there so I was just replacing them.
Turned the main lighting circuit off, took the old fittings down and as I was balancing on a dining chair fiddling with the wiring for the new lights I found out that the downright were on the same circuit as the wall plugs not the lights!
I remember going "Nnnnnngggggggggggg!!!" for a bit then being on the floor!

 

[Red Squirrel]

When I was like 12 I got my first 120v shock. I was basically the Temu version of Electroboom and was messing around with electricity a lot lol.

Never been hit by 240v but did get hit by what I assume was a few kv years back but I don't know how high exactly because I don't have any meter that can handle those kind of voltages. It was low current high frequency. I was playing around with a push pull controller and a HV transformer trying to make an ozone generator but ended up just making a toy and was having fun making arcs lol.

 

[igor_kavinski]

You guys are reckless!

I can remember only two incidents. One where I had the bright idea of jabbing scissors into an electrical socket as a kid. It was most likely 120V coz I survived.

Second was much harsher 240V when I lazily plugged in an appliance in the kitchen without taking care of my free finger (probably 11 years old). Lasted at most a second but buzzed the hell out of me. The after effects lingered for a while. I don't remember any part of my body being affected more than my brain. Literally felt like my brain got cooked.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just remembered I had another really good one in high school actually, was in theatre club and was making what was essentially a dimmable extension cord, which we were going to use for lighting. Problem is someone else had already wired the end that goes into the outlet and got the wires mixed up. I was holding the dimmer box which was made of metal and was SUPPOSE to be grounded but instead it was live. When I saw it was not working I reached over to unplug it and the plug had a metal part that I presume was also grounded and that's when I got a arm to arm shock. Felt that one for a good hour lol.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I got shocked a few times in my life.

25KV DC from a CRT tube monitor that still had charge in it.
380V AC during school, learning WYE star and DELTA configurations for electromotors.
A couple of times 220V AC.

And touched an energized fence once from a farmer in the country side, luckily i did not pee there.

 

[Red Squirrel]

CRTs really kick hard. Thankfully never had to experience that lol.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Just remembered I had another really good one in high school actually, was in theatre club and was making what was essentially a dimmable extension cord, which we were going to use for lighting. Problem is someone else had already wired the end that goes into the outlet and got the wires mixed up. I was holding the dimmer box which was made of metal and was SUPPOSE to be grounded but instead it was live. When I saw it was not working I reached over to unplug it and the plug had a metal part that I presume was also grounded and that's when I got a arm to arm shock. Felt that one for a good hour lol.

I have a tendency to sweat over my whole body like crazy when i get shocked. I do not know why, but sweat is salt so i guess it is a bit of protection. My own liquid faraday cage.

 

[William Gaatjes]

CRTs really kick hard. Thankfully never had to experience that lol.

Yeah , i was wearing a special ESD lab coat with conductive mesh wires in it, i touched the rubber suction cup connector that has two metal clips inside the CRT tube. And my ESD lab coat touched the GND connection of the CRT tube , so i got buzzed. The connector is part of the flyback transformer assembly. I closed the circuit. The monitor was off of course.

 

[Muse]

Nothing memorable.

Plenty of static electricity shocks touching metal doorknobs. Where I live now it seldom gets very dry air, so it's been a while.

 

[balloonshark]

My father worked for the telephone company. Sometimes he would bring tools home. He had this really long 9V battery. I thought it was a 9V battery with more capacity so I licked the top to test the battery. It turned out to be a 45V battery lol.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It turned out to be a 45V battery lol.

OUCH!

Did you have to deal with slurred speech or lack of taste for a while?

 

[balloonshark]

OUCH!

Did you have to deal with slurred speech or lack of taste for a while?

It was a long time ago but I do remember my tongue went numb for a bit. I also felt really dumb and learned to be more careful about what I lick.