I think I just almost died ;)

[gplanet]

I just grabbed a fully-heated 50W soldering iron between my fingers backwards...ouch. In shock, I toss it away and it goes behind my desk. Figuring my carpet is now on fire, I frantically go to unplug the iron. In doing so, i accidentally touch the metal prongs from the plug shocking myself with 120V and i fall back a few feet. I finally get it unplugged and luckily a single cord stopped the iron from falling onto the carpet. Now my heart feels kind of funny and i got a bad burn between 2 fingers

 

[aphex]

I think I just almost died

You think you almost died?

 

[Platypus]

Wow, that was shocking.

 

[gopunk]

on a slightly lesser note... take the shiny wrapping from the hershey's cookies and creme nuggets, take a battery and have some fun i was just playing around and got a pleasant surprise

 

[gplanet]

now i'm peeling some charred black skin off the iron

 

[Miramonti]

In the future, I recommend you don't operate heavy machinery, drive at night, or cook for the kids.

 

[shaddow]

You will feel funny after a good jolt, I had a 110 outlet bring me to one knee recently at work and did not feel right til the next day.

 

[rgwalt]

Take the rest of the night off. Go to bed. This was a message for you to slow down.

Ryan

 

[Cyco]

No offense, but DUMASS!!!

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: cyco5150
No offense, but DUMASS!!!

isnt there a B in that?

 

[UDT89]

i hate to say this but


Reading your story gave me the chills when you said the thing about the iron. But the plug thing just made me laugh out loud for like a few minute. Now my stomach hurts and i feel like i almost killed myself because the laughing is choking me.

I thought i had bad luck, but to get burned then try to be safe and get shocked where you get thrown from the outlet, LOL, wowzers.

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Wow, that was shocking.

Werd.

 

[jm0ut]

Originally posted by: Biosfear
i cracked open a apple crt monitor when it was plugged in i could see the electogun shooting everywhere i thought it was the most beatifull thing ever i caught a 1 second glipse untill a 5 inch thick arch jumped 4 feet into my arm and chest and made my pliars almost fry in my hand thankfully i was wearing sneakers on a nice garage floor.to this day my face and wrist still hurt

Uh you broke into a monitor while it was on? Nice job

 

[gplanet]

so what does it look like biosfear?

 

[Renob]

I want to see some Pics of your burned skin.

 

[Ultima]

Originally posted by: jm0ut

Originally posted by: Biosfear
i cracked open a apple crt monitor when it was plugged in i could see the electogun shooting everywhere i thought it was the most beatifull thing ever i caught a 1 second glipse untill a 5 inch thick arch jumped 4 feet into my arm and chest and made my pliars almost fry in my hand thankfully i was wearing sneakers on a nice garage floor.to this day my face and wrist still hurt

Uh you broke into a monitor while it was on? Nice job

that story sounds like bs to me. I thought that those "electro-guns" couldn't do crap except in a vacuum, and why would he get shocked if he was wearing sneakers? It's not AC and it has nowhere to go.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Ultima

Originally posted by: jm0ut

Originally posted by: Biosfear
i cracked open a apple crt monitor when it was plugged in i could see the electogun shooting everywhere i thought it was the most beatifull thing ever i caught a 1 second glipse untill a 5 inch thick arch jumped 4 feet into my arm and chest and made my pliars almost fry in my hand thankfully i was wearing sneakers on a nice garage floor.to this day my face and wrist still hurt

Uh you broke into a monitor while it was on? Nice job

that story sounds like bs to me. I thought that those "electro-guns" couldn't do crap except in a vacuum, and why would he get shocked if he was wearing sneakers? It's not AC and it has nowhere to go.

Yeah, it sounds like pretty big BS to me too.. the only place the HV in a monitor is in the coil/tranny, and within the CRT (and whatever filtering caps/chokes/etc). I'm not too familiar with CRT's, but most vacuum tubes run <500v. So lets say a CRT is 2kv. (just a guess).

2kv @ <100mA = not much of a jump. sure as hell not no fuggin 4 feet.

Never really understood the gun thing.. is it just the cathode? ITS IN THE DAMN TUBE!


Anyways, you could safely run a CRT with no cover (as long as you dont go touching stuff on the PCB).


And besides, If the "gun" "arced", then wouldnt it go to the closest ground? (ie the grounded tin box where the cord enters the monitor)

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Biosfear
that old monitors electricity jumped everywhere you guys didnt even listen i never said the electro gun shot me i pulled up this pig fat plug that had 6 9 guage wires into it

oh, ok.

So your saying 120v AC jumped 4 feet then?

Or what plug are you talking about?
Please respond with semi-proper sentance structure, so I can make sense of it. Thanks.

 

[morkinva]

It was probably that faulty flyback x-former.

Now that's thick-headed !

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Biosfear
i didnt get burned just stunned badly imagine a vortex of colors boucning in all directions bright blues and greens dancing and seeing tons of little dots everywhere

Then you must be lying because the electron guns don't generate the colors.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: gplanet
I just grabbed a fully-heated 50W soldering iron between my fingers backwards...ouch. In shock, I toss it away and it goes behind my desk. Figuring my carpet is now on fire, I frantically go to unplug the iron. In doing so, i accidentally touch the metal prongs from the plug shocking myself with 120V and i fall back a few feet. I finally get it unplugged and luckily a single cord stopped the iron from falling onto the carpet. Now my heart feels kind of funny and i got a bad burn between 2 fingers

Who are you...Jerry Lewis??????

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: gplanet
I just grabbed a fully-heated 50W soldering iron between my fingers backwards...ouch. In shock, I toss it away and it goes behind my desk. Figuring my carpet is now on fire, I frantically go to unplug the iron. In doing so, i accidentally touch the metal prongs from the plug shocking myself with 120V and i fall back a few feet. I finally get it unplugged and luckily a single cord stopped the iron from falling onto the carpet. Now my heart feels kind of funny and i got a bad burn between 2 fingers

Who are you...Jerry Lewis??????

Hehehehe.

I zapped myself a couple times with 120 lines. (120, 121, whatever it takes) The worst is when I was replacing a garbage disposal under the sink when I was about 20. I turned off the switch to it (dumbass move, you learn the hard way to use the curcuit breakers) and I was working on it when it happened. I was putting the wires together (I was laying under the sink to do this of course) and my elbow hit the drain pipe (before they went to plastic) and I completed a circuit. That hurt a lot, trust me.

I have a real nice circuit tester and fuse finder gizmo that you plug in the outlet and bring the other piece to the fuse box and it lights up when you move it over the right breaker. Really nice when the breakers aren't labled. If in doubt, I shut down the whole house.

 

[iamwiz82]

A few months ago i had an opened 180W sparkle PSU which i was working on and go tthe shock of my life when i touched the 2 leads to the power input. Two weeks ago i took apart one of those throw away cameras to setup the flash to go off whenever i wanted and managed to touch the circuit board right where teh capacitor was located, another good shock.

 

[Shagger]

I often complain about the lack of a predator for Man to thin the herd down. Perhaps Electricity could be that bleach in the gene pool I am looking for...

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

You might consider going back to bed now.