On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:18:38 +1000, "Alex Gibson"
wrote:

Just stunned at the time. Had to take him for a ecg afterwards
standard precaution. No problems at the time.

But his health seemed to deteriate after that.
Maybe it triggered an existing condition.
Six months later he suffered a heart attack.

An immediate EKG may not have shown anything, but a follow-up by a
cardiologist might have shown problems.

From my own experiance, rf burns hurt more than
standard 50Hz ac or dc shocks even though I would have to
rate car iginition systems a close second.

RF frequency burns are nastier than DC or low frequency, and are much
more disruptive to the body's electrical/nervous system.

They can also burn internally, with little outward burn shown.

A co-worker some years ago was sloppy, and put a few hundred watts of
RF through his hand. Nasty burn which took a very long time to heal.
Over 15 years, but I bet he still has a scar.

My advice is to avoid zapping anything you can't buy at the parts
store.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
------------------------------------------------
at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:18:38 +1000, "Alex Gibson"
wrote:

Just stunned at the time. Had to take him for a ecg afterwards
standard precaution. No problems at the time.

But his health seemed to deteriate after that.
Maybe it triggered an existing condition.
Six months later he suffered a heart attack.

An immediate EKG may not have shown anything, but a follow-up by a
cardiologist might have shown problems.

From my own experiance, rf burns hurt more than
standard 50Hz ac or dc shocks even though I would have to
rate car iginition systems a close second.

RF frequency burns are nastier than DC or low frequency, and are much
more disruptive to the body's electrical/nervous system.

They can also burn internally, with little outward burn shown.

A co-worker some years ago was sloppy, and put a few hundred watts of
RF through his hand. Nasty burn which took a very long time to heal.
Over 15 years, but I bet he still has a scar.

My advice is to avoid zapping anything you can't buy at the parts
store.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
------------------------------------------------
at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom

"Paul Burridge" wrote in message =
...
=20
The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?
=20

One of the guys on a maintenance crew I was on in a previous job
and was doing testing with managed to get a nice 415vac 400Hz
across the chest.

Doing testing in mec relay panel the relays were in the back of the =
panel / box and
the doors are where all the circuit breakers are mounted.
remeber he made contact with the uncovered terminal of a transformer.

I was working with him as well as a few others, activating =
sensors(sticking a spanner in front etc)
and he was confirming the right voltages were being recieved to activate =
relays etc.
Just heard a loud shout over the intercom and we all went running.

He was lucky he didn't get throw by it as he could have fallen about=20
10 foot on to the tarmac.

Just stunned at the time. Had to take him for a ecg afterwards
standard precaution. No problems at the time.

But his health seemed to deteriate after that.
Maybe it triggered an existing condition.
Six months later he suffered a heart attack.

From my own experiance, rf burns hurt more than
standard 50Hz ac or dc shocks even though I would have to
rate car iginition systems a close second.

Alex

In article , wrote:

The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?

I got 6000V from a Neon transformer once. Ouch! Only rated at 7ma, though.
The new one I got does 12000V at 15ma. I'm alot more careful now.

Chris

"Chris1" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?

I got 6000V from a Neon transformer once. Ouch! Only rated at 7ma, though.
The new one I got does 12000V at 15ma. I'm alot more careful now.

During my junior lab while working for a physics degree, we had to build a
gas flow geiger counter to count cosmic rays (the cosmic ray group ran the
class). The 5000 volt supply we built for the tubes had no current limiting,
so the current limits of the components was all the protection we had. I got
5000 volts to the tip of one of my fingers while working on it, it left a
nice brown spot that lasted for several weeks. That wasn't the scariest
shock event in my life, I was driving down the highway, and felt the hair
raise up on my arms. Then there was a boom and my car radio stopped working.
That was the one time that I was in a lightning event. Fortunately that was
years before I was a ham or I would have lost several more radios at the
same time.
thanks, John.
KC5DWD

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:25:06 -0500, "john graesser"
wrote:

That wasn't the scariest
shock event in my life, I was driving down the highway, and felt the hair
raise up on my arms. Then there was a boom and my car radio stopped working.
That was the one time that I was in a lightning event.

For a moment there I thought you were about to tell us you were
abducted by aliens. :-)
--

"I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend
to write it." - Winston Churchill

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:25:06 -0500, "john graesser"
wrote:

That wasn't the scariest
shock event in my life, I was driving down the highway, and felt the hair
raise up on my arms. Then there was a boom and my car radio stopped working.
That was the one time that I was in a lightning event.

For a moment there I thought you were about to tell us you were
abducted by aliens. :-)
--

"I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend
to write it." - Winston Churchill

"Chris1" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?

I got 6000V from a Neon transformer once. Ouch! Only rated at 7ma, though.
The new one I got does 12000V at 15ma. I'm alot more careful now.

During my junior lab while working for a physics degree, we had to build a
gas flow geiger counter to count cosmic rays (the cosmic ray group ran the
class). The 5000 volt supply we built for the tubes had no current limiting,
so the current limits of the components was all the protection we had. I got
5000 volts to the tip of one of my fingers while working on it, it left a
nice brown spot that lasted for several weeks. That wasn't the scariest
shock event in my life, I was driving down the highway, and felt the hair
raise up on my arms. Then there was a boom and my car radio stopped working.
That was the one time that I was in a lightning event. Fortunately that was
years before I was a ham or I would have lost several more radios at the
same time.
thanks, John.
KC5DWD

In article , wrote:

The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever
had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived?

I got 6000V from a Neon transformer once. Ouch! Only rated at 7ma, though.
The new one I got does 12000V at 15ma. I'm alot more careful now.

Chris

No, but I have been cured of AIDS, just got a set
of spark plugs for my Diesel lorry and a couple of
skyhooks to hold up my HF dipole!

Theo