Don't mess around with electricity.

[zora04]

A technician and myself were working on a 4160Vac soft start. We had the disconnect open and the transformer killed out. I went outside to get some tools and found him crouched in the corner when I returned. He said something shocked the fuck outta him. I knew we had everything powered down, and thought he was full of shit. I got into the starter and started checking around. BAM! Something knocked the ever living fuck outta me. The only thing I could figure was the 2000hp induction motor windings were holding a charge. Voltmeter to ground showed 1000Vdc. I've been hit a couple of times, but that was by far the worst. It knocked my dick in the dirt.

[Frank]

I thought DC just burns you up and that it was AC that causes your body to jerk and clamp down the reason you cant let go?

I also understand it is what between 400 mil amp to 1 amp that can throw your heart out of rhythm but higher it is burning?

[GeorgeG.]

If I ever need electrical advise...I now have a list of people to ask what NOT to do....All of yous guys, lol.

[4EyedTurd]

Gotta love the jokers that walk up behind you while your working in a bucket or panel and strobe a bright flashlight.

[mstng86]

I got hit with 7200v about a year ago, due to a case ground on a transformer being grounded incorrectly. That combined with complacency on my part made for a bad day.

Had quite a few people tell me how I shouldn't be alive or have all my limbs.

I remember that. I didn't know how serious it was though.

[BoostedD1]

I got "stuck" on 240DC once working on a controller. The only way I got away from that was because my body fell away from it... I was standing up at the time. I am lucky to be alive. I literally felt my heart out of rhythm afterwards and yacked... DC don't mess around. At least with AC you have a pulsating chance to get unstuck. I still get chills thinking back to that episode. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[Forever_frost]

In Korea we had a Korean National decide he wanted a payday for his family so while working on rebuilding the camp, he walked over to the big transformers and grabbed it with both hands. It was interesting to say the least.

I'm terrified of electricity because my father, growing up, would make my brother and me grab a hold of the electric fence to test to see if it was working or grab spark plugs on mowers while he yanked the rope. He was a dick while growing up. He'd literally stand there with the fence tester in his hand and tell us to grab it.

[CJ-95GT]

I once got a jolt from having my pinky toe in a christmass tree light socket (lol). Your friend is a Bad M/F 'er fo sure!

[samuel642000]

Some of you guys have had some wild brushes with death. The rest of you need to step it the fuck up.

You'd besurprised if you heard every story I had, about myself, involving really close calls. I used to keep my guardian angel(s) really busy but ahve grown to be more careful.

[samuel642000]

I hate it when im welding on a 100 plus degree day and im sitting on a metal stool and all the sudden the ground goes through the stool and hits my sweaty balls. Now that's a surprise!

Had that happen to me as well, often on the gooch, it is a shockingly good time.

[46Tbird]

Anytime I do electrical work, I throw the circuit breaker and run my non-contact voltage tester over it to make sure it's really dead. I suggest buying one of these if you're an amateur like me, and don't want to get shocked.

I had a friend at Texas A&M that had a Chevelle using a magneto to fire the big block instead of a distributor. He was tweaking the timing one afternoon and grabbed the mag with the car running. When he came to, he was ten feet away from the car, it was dark outside, and the car had run itself out of gas. This guy is 6'6 so that must have been quite a jolt.

I'd say Yellowbelly counts as an honest brush with death.

I've been to YB several times, but I only ran my car there once. After I made a few passes, it sat in the pits unattended for a while. On the way home, it started driving bad and making a terrible racket from the right front wheel. It only had two lug nuts left holding it on, and they were backed nearly all the way off. Never again...

[Matt]

I hate it when im welding on a 100 plus degree day and im sitting on a metal stool and all the sudden the ground goes through the stool and hits my sweaty balls. Now that's a surprise!

[Frank]

That was the song I thought of when I read the post title.

[TRAILBLAZER]

[BlackGT]

I don't do electrical. I know I'm stupid in that department.

X3!