"JG2U" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:56:26 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"D.Duck" wrote in message
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That's why you should always be wearing your grounded wrist strap. :-)


After a while I just got used to being the ground.

The worst shock I ever received was from a high power, high voltage DC
power
supply. 12,000 volts with current capacity of 1.5 amps. Happened at the
first job I had after leaving the Navy. I remember my hands feeling like
basketballs, then I went out like a light. Woke up in the ambulance on
the
way to the hospital.

They checked me out, EKG, all that stuff, then determined I was fine other
than some minor burns on my fingers.

Eisboch


Yep... I got bit by a cheap RF amp back in the CB days. No bleeders
on the HV section of a 500 watt amp. Knocked me back a few feet,
burns on my fingers where it entered and exited, and my arm hurt for a
few days.

I learned the ground jumper / screwdiver trick, and practiced it after
that.

In tech school we ran the TACAN on low power, which was 3000V on the tube
caps. And lots of current. We turned down the power on the drawer before
opening and then used a shorting bar to make sure all the caps were
discharged. One day the Vietnamese MAP student started discharging the caps
and sparks flying everywhere. Had not turned off the power. And this guy
had absolutely no business dealing in electricity. Was totally clueless.
Did not even notice things were different with the sparks flying.