Got zapped testing a headlight motor!

[1967coronet]

Now hold on..... This power probe , is it powered off a 120 outlet ?
We don't know what this guy is probing with.

 

[WileE]

 

[BB BELLA]

house I grew up in my uncle was tinkerer and inventer! Had a pretty cool shop in the basement for a kid learning the ropes! vice on the end of the metal bench was beside the dryer, I learned not to touch vice and dryer at the same time, would give you quite a dance move! not sure what he did but it wasn't right!

 

[sam dupont]

A car with 60 year old wiring and a powerful capacitor. Is it possible for the capacitor to be shorting through the wiring?

 

[kiwigtx]

Now hold on..... This power probe , is it powered off a 120 outlet ?
We don't know what this guy is probing with.

I hope he is not using a mains powered series tester.

We had a couple at the shop when I was an apprentice for testing earth (ground) continuity mainly on appliances. Basically a 100-Watt lamp connected in series with a plug and two probes - meaning that if you got between the probes, a nasty shock would be guaranteed.

I also use a series lamp sometimes when fault-finding on machinery - the short-circuit will make the lamp glow bright.
Not recommended for beginners who dabble part-time.

 

[HEMIB]

Anyone had a 33KV shock off the powerlines now i can tell you that hurts threw a large square shank screw driver through the roof of our F100 the blade anyway.

 

[TN Mopar]

Wait until he gets around to working on the EL
He gets popped from that and he really will scream

 

[kiwigtx]

Anyone had a 33KV shock off the powerlines now i can tell you that hurts threw a large square shank screw driver through the roof of our F100 the blade anyway.

Do you work in the mines?

 

[HEMIB]

Do you work in the mines?

Back in the 70's 80's there was no circuit diagrams back then it was all hands on fault finding the bucket wheel reclaimers were the most challenging .

 

[Mackman]

In my forty year career working in the electrical trade I got hit with 277 volts a few times . It’s a pretty extreme shock. A coworker got hit with 480 on his hand and it blew it open. He recovered over time. I can’t figure how you would feel a shock from 12 volts, but if the man says he did , I guess he did.

That 277 does hurt!

 

[dadsbee]

600 three phase, finished a grade 12 project syncing a generator to the line. Standard protocol with everything was the teacher verified correct and then went and shut off the breaker so the next group could do it after we tore it apart. My partner shut if off, teacher turned it back on. Thank God he also knew CPR !

 

[HEMIB]

600 three phase, finished a grade 12 project syncing a generator to the line. Standard protocol with everything was the teacher verified correct and then went and shut off the breaker so the next group could do it after we tore it apart. My partner shut if off, teacher turned it back on. Thank God he also knew CPR !

I set up 2 x Cat V12 750 KVA Gensets on a breakback trailer with synchronizer gear between them, trained the operator how to sync using the synchroscope what does the first operator do starts them both up then bangs the main switches on both without synchronizing lets say there was quite a twist in the trailer

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

In my forty year career working in the electrical trade I got hit with 277 volts a few times . It’s a pretty extreme shock. A coworker got hit with 480 on his hand and it blew it open. He recovered over time. I can’t figure how you would feel a shock from 12 volts, but if the man says he did , I guess he did.

Me personally, I’ve never been hit by anything over 120vac. My dad had a work friend who was an electrician at a hydro dam who got hit with 4,160vac. Went in his wrist and out his elbow. Could hardly tell anything from the outside…but it sure messed up the internals of his arm. Cooked it from the inside out in a split second.

Not telling anyone here what they don’t already know - electricity is no joke! Always test before touch.

 

[khryslerkid]

That 277 does hurt!

Worked maintenance at a hospital and had to change a ballast outside the operating rooms hallway. No turning off breakers up there. I turned off the light switch to the hallway lights and while I was undoing the wire nuts I heard a ticking sound on the floor. Yep, it was a wire nut, the one I thought I was still twisting off a set of 277 wires. Kind of funny how fast I came down off that ladder. My arm tingled for a couple of hours after that.

OP be like..

 

[HEMIB]

My Leading hand was testing with a square D tester in the back of a 440VAC switch board someone had illegally wired (An offence in Australia) a 22 KV busbar across the back of the switchboard when he touched the tester probe onto it it went off like a piece of instant fuse the probe lead burnt a line down his arm to his wedding ring burnt the ring to the bone when it blew the test lead clear no other damage apart from being in shock & wanted to keep working

 

[Davefinan]

An electrician in my local got killed doing practically that very same thing . Except it was found that he was using a ten dollar tester which they say blue apart and created an arc across the bus bar which blew up the electric room.

 

[Cranky]

600 three phase, finished a grade 12 project syncing a generator to the line. Standard protocol with everything was the teacher verified correct and then went and shut off the breaker so the next group could do it after we tore it apart. My partner shut if off, teacher turned it back on. Thank God he also knew CPR !

12th grade high school or electrical school?

 

[dadsbee]

12th grade high school or electrical school?

Highschool...