Re: electrocution experiences

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Original poster: "spoonMAN by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

On the subject of electrocuton:

If anyone is looking for new footwear, timberland makes a
line of work boots called the pro series. One of these
pairs of boots provides open circuit protectoin of up to
600 volts.. it won't do much good for higher voltages..
it's still better than nothing.. just a thought.. ;)

Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Jason Johnson by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hvjjohnson13-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Wow, its been a long time since I last posted....
> 
> I have been near electrocuted several times, mostly from
> stupidity;
> 
> The first time was about 2 years ago, the very first time
> I ran my MOT coil
> (the first revision, only original things that still
> remain are the
> esecondary coil & transformers). I had just finished it,
> and it was to big
> to run  inside so I pulled it outside while it was still
> fairly light. I
> fired it up and much to my delight I saw beautiful 2 foot
> long arcs, though
> they were faint because of the light. I got in a little
> closer to look, and
> to my surprise the 2 foot arcs were quite a bit longer
> than I had thought! I
> was shocked on the right arm and it went out my right
> foot, no burns or
> serious damage.
> 
> Second time was when I took 6500volts at about 650 uA
> (micro-amps, not
> milliamps) straight across the chest, due to a bad spot
> in the insulation of
> the wires I was using.
> 
> The third and worst time, by far, was when I got ahold of
> 120 right across
> the chest and tripped the 15 amp breaker. I was tinkering
> with an old motor
> someone had just given me, the insulation on the cord had
> been fried and was
> brittle enough to crumble right off the two sides of the
> wires when I
> grabbed them. Vaporized the 16 gauge copper in the cord,
> left two nice burns
> in my hands, and tripped the breaker REAL hard. All I
> really remeber was a
> brilliant white flash, pain, and then me standing in a
> large cloud of smoke.
> I was very, very lucky, somehow the burns didn't even
> require a trip to the
> doctors, and no other damage.
> 
> Another time I found out the hard way that microwave oven
> capacitors
> predating 1970 have no bleeder reistor in them. Theres
> still a dent in my
> steel locker from my elbow coming backwards VERY fast.
> 
> Also concerning bleeder resistors, I discharged an 8kv
> 2ufd through my left
> hand due to failed bleeder resistors. There were no
> burns, it just blew two
> small holes in the skin and looked like a scar for about
> 2 weeks.
> 
> Lessons learned:
> Never trust bleeder resistors
> Never trust insulation thats older than you are (slight
> exaggeration)
> Never underestimate your coil
> Never operate a coil in conditions were you won't be able
> to see the sparks
> 
> 
> << Jason R. Johnson >>
> G-3 #1129
> The Geek Group
> http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/
> 
> "The two most common elements in the universe are
> hydrogen and stupidity."
>  -Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 


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