Got zapped testing a headlight motor!

[67 Mopar]

If you have ever been sweaty on your arm and lean across a 12 volt battery posts reaching into a car. I have gotten shocked many times.

Dry skin has an electrical resistance of around 100,000 ohms, but wet skin drops that resistance to roughly 1000 ohms. It's the amperage that bites, not the voltage.

 

[1967coronet]

That 277 does hurt!

My brother got zapped with a 277 circut , he was on the 3rd level of scaffolding.
It knocked all the tools out of his belt bag and he talked funny for a few minutes.

 

[RemCharger]

If you have ever been sweaty on your arm and lean across a 12 volt battery posts reaching into a car. I have gotten shocked many times. Its enough to make you move your arm

Yep absolutely. " what the hells going on here?"

 

[kiwigtx]

My brother got zapped with a 277 circut , he was on the 3rd level of scaffolding.
It knocked all the tools out of his belt bag and he talked funny for a few minutes.

While working in the housing estates of Peckham, South London (back in the '90's) a colleague of mine was up a ladder repairing a streetlight. A dog came along and took a whizz in his tool bag on the ground. My buddy looked down and yelled at the dog to bugger off....without noticing a street urchin of a kid close by.
Only a few minutes later an angry looking guy emerged from the building all tooled up with a baseball bat with six-inch nails surrounding the tip looking like some sort of medieval weapon of war, yelling threateningly at my bud about him yelling at the dog. Naturally my buddy was scared as hell and made a hasty retreat with his tools luckily. We went back later to retrieve the ladder....surprised it was still there.

Sorry, where were we going with this ....

 

[Don selleck]

I was working on a performance bicycle store in Ann Arbor, first got there there were several different trades there working. One temporary plug to run everything. Of course kept blowing the breaker. Ask electrician to fire up another line so the stupid would be over, oh no was only paid to put one in, basically a plug added and flip a breaker switch would have solved the problem. came back about a week later to finish up some items, of course needed power, breaker pops, went over to flip the breaker which was changed out to a permanent line to the bathroom which I had no idea, flipped it and heard sizzling and someone yelling, it didn't pop the breaker had to manually turn it off. The sparky was working on top of a metal stud ceiling with the bare wires in his hands when I flipped it, sparky ran down to fight me, He saw me and just shook his head.

 

[Davefinan]

While working in the housing estates of Peckham, South London (back in the '90's) a colleague of mine was up a ladder repairing a streetlight. A dog came along and took a whizz in his tool bag on the ground. My buddy looked down and yelled at the dog to bugger off....without noticing a street urchin of a kid close by.
Only a few minutes later an angry looking guy emerged from the building all tooled up with a baseball bat with six-inch nails surrounding the tip looking like some sort of medieval weapon of war, yelling threateningly at my bud about him yelling at the dog. Naturally my buddy was scared as hell and made a hasty retreat with his tools luckily. We went back later to retrieve the ladder....surprised it was still there.

Sorry, where were we going with this ....

Uh oh….bag of rusty tools

 

[kiwigtx]

I was working on a performance bicycle store in Ann Arbor, first got there there were several different trades there working. One temporary plug to run everything. Of course kept blowing the breaker. Ask electrician to fire up another line so the stupid would be over, oh no was only paid to put one in, basically a plug added and flip a breaker switch would have solved the problem. came back about a week later to finish up some items, of course needed power, breaker pops, went over to flip the breaker which was changed out to a permanent line to the bathroom which I had no idea, flipped it and heard sizzling and someone yelling, it didn't pop the breaker had to manually turn it off. The sparky was working on top of a metal stud ceiling with the bare wires in his hands when I flipped it, sparky ran down to fight me, He saw me and just shook his head.

 

[kiwigtx]

flipped it and heard sizzling and someone yelling,

That's Gold.