Electrocuted

[Sherita]

Sorry , very cool by the way, so a uv sterilizer would be ac and my zoomed HO is dc good to know, at least it was an LED but still sucks I passed out

No harm done, not a habitat that one normally finds women working in.

I actually suspect your zoomed ho would be ac. I can't say about the uv, mine is dc since it has a wall wort that plugs in. The easiest way is if there is a wall wort, take a close look at it. Somewhere on it you will see input and output. It will look like this:

Input 115vac 2amp

Output 12v dc 1amp

or some such. Obviously, your numbers will be different. Most fluorescent lighting is ac, all of mine is.

[Reefer madness92]

The uv has a transformer the zoomed goes strait into the wall not that I'm even using the uv it's more backup.

[allan]

Yeah, I forget the actual numbers, but to generate x-ray you have to hit tungsten with an arc at about 15k vac to atomize the material.

We don't work in the tube heads, but that's a lot of juice to play with up to the head. Our old techs used to work inside the transformer for the old 100/100 x-rays... Crossed lines often resulted in a fireball.

LEDs are powered by dc, conventional diodes run at 1.2vdc, only reason I know that. Your LED set up, if your transformer was removed as sherita indicated, would have given you a blast of dc juice.

The other day I had a pump go out in my sump which provided a nice AC tingle to the water since I was standing barefoot on the floor. Since I had frags to put in the tank, and I couldn't, I asked Milly to do it.

She stood on the stand which didn't give her a path to ground.... Until I grabbed her arm.

[Sherita]

Allan, you're terrible

Something else impressive....drop a knockout down the back of a service panel, then fire up service. You will have a full grown thunderstorm inside the building, complete with clouds, lightening and thunder. Works best with at least 660v, don't try this at home, your results may differ, offer void in any state that would sue you.

What you did reminds me of high school and working on cars. Have someone hold your hand, then grab that spark plug wire that is popping fire to the manifold. You won't feel it, they sure will. OR, do like someone I know.......get mad at your tractor and change out the 6v coil........with the key on. If I wasn't mad before, I sure was after. Dang, those things pack a punch.

[johnsutter71]

I just installed a ground probe in my refugium

[allan]

I have one of those grounding wires as well. Now.

I've actually pulled that plug once to turn off my truck from the engine bay. Slammed me so hard I thought I was going to lose my arm. Shoulder ached for a week.

Have never done that since.

[Sherita]

Have never done that since.

It usually only takes one time. That lesson HURTS.

I learned a new found respect for 6v coils the day I forgot to turn the tractor key off. Like you, I won't do that again.

[alton]

Sorry I missed the excitement, glad you are okay. So many times I hear it is only 120 volts? 120 volts will kill you just as well as 14.2K. I believe we are having we are having a Electricity and Water Safety Seminar in November at the November Meeting. Hopefully we have a good showing of MAAST members. We will cover ways how to prevent being shocked and what to do if there is a problem.

[Reefer madness92]

Sorry I missed the excitement, glad you are okay. So many times I hear it is only 120 volts? 120 volts will kill you just as well as 14.2K. I believe we are having we are having a Electricity and Water Safety Seminar in November at the November Meeting. Hopefully we have a good showing of MAAST members. We will cover ways how to prevent being shocked and what to do if there is a problem.

thanks and il look into the meeting sounds cool

[allan]

Yeah, I guess I should appologize for making light of this case. Most folks that work around electricity in my field tend to get a bit jaded by it. Primarily because we aren't wet when we do our repairs. Our bodies have about a 100,000 ohms, so a 120 bite is just a wake up. When you're wet or in water your body's resistance drops to about a 1,000 ohms which can make a 120 bite lethal. We also tend to wear grounding bands about are arms, I'm sure they work because each time I get bit, I'm not wearing one.