Electricity PSA

[ncox38]

DO NOT grab the wire nuts for your metal halides you just wired up to tell your girlfriend you really wish you had some heat shrink to cover these up while wearing socks that are wet because you spilled water during a water change...It really friggin' hurts...

 

[Nanook]

:lol: :lol:

 

[sirreal63]

I guess you could call them numb nuts or is that numbing nuts? Now you know how Lost marbles lost his marbles.

 

[nano7joy]

:lol:

 

[Schplitter]

Hey at least you did not do it on purpose. At the tender age of 6 I took a 10 gage 1ft piece of wire. Created a loop and made sure it fit directly into both sides of a wall outlet. Keep in mind this was in Europe where the amperage is higher. 10 storry bulding was out for a good 3 hours. My palm smelled like a bbq. And it hurt.

 

[sirreal63]

Now that is funny. I am sure all of us have our little horror stories to tell about doing things with electricity. I have been popped so many times I can't remember them all...could be cause and effect. lol

 

[Im Lon 2]

Bzzzz....











































Flash backs? LMAO :lol:

 

[Lost His Marbles Name]

I talked to the head o.s.h.a. guy for IBEW " the electrical people", boy did he have some stories. He know's every thing that happens in St. Louis; it's his job. They find out who is at fault, why it happened and fine the crap out of company's. Big money loss for companies but they learn real quick. I heard heads, legs, arms, were blown off and other private parts. I'm not kidding!!!!!!!!!! One guy touched the two legs of high voltage DC current "which is worse than AC current" with his hands and blew the back of his head and neck off killing him instantly.

 

[TWINPEAKS]

I've gotten across 90 volts DC with a sweaty arm,my arm was numb for 3 hours!

 

[MC Lighting]

yes high voltage dc can turn a person into a rather large fuse why did you get shocked by the wire nuts though did you cut the wires too long not to fit in the cap correctly?

 

[ncox38]

no, it was stranded wire and when i twisted the nut on one little strand was just barely poking out the bottom. I just happened to touch it just right (wrong?) it is on a gfci but it didnt trip, i guess im replacing that thing. Lost Marbles, any reason you can think of that it didnt trip? it works correctly if i test it by the button on the outlet, and if i try to trip it with my outlet tester.

 

[MC Lighting]

well I am glad you were not hurt at all as those ballast are quite capable of a good jolt... The GFCI will not trip under all conditions in fact they tell you that in the instructions there has to be an imballacne of power between hot and neatural to ground and in your case there was probably not enough current to trip it. Getting poked by the wire probably hurt about as much as the shock that is one reason I hate stranded wire, i always teist the wire tight before putting them togethr to avoid these situations but every once in a while you miss a strand.

 

[Lost His Marbles Name]

You can die with the correct amperes going threw your heart. The GFCI outlets or breakers trip at 5 milli amperes. If you were getting hit by 120-volt 4 milli amperes, the GFI doesn't trip and you get a good shocking. I used to get shocked standing in my basement concrete floor when my heater went bad. I just kept my hand in there pulling stuff out until I found out which electrical device went bad. I don't care, I have been shocked so many times and I knew the GFI would protect me if it got to bad. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.