After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.



I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.



So Mote It Be


--
Burr
Big, Lean, Mean and Clean
I'll be lifting until they pry the
bar from my cold dead hands
Adventure before Dementia

Just Plain Burr wrote:

After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.

I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.

Glad you're OK.

I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided to mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting into about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't make it
to dementia.

"dxAce"

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't
make it
to dementia.



Hang up and I'll call

OK

Just Plain Burr wrote:

"dxAce"

You keep doing that Cuz, and your adventure will be over and you won't
make it
to dementia.



Hang up and I'll call

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided to
mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting into
about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.

My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave oven,
and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than from a
TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched backward
across a room by a jolt like that was something that only happened in
cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile of stainless
steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought much differently.
Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to about 200 for a
couple minutes..)

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided to
mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting into
about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.

My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave
oven, and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than
from a TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched
backward across a room by a jolt like that was something that only
happened in cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile
of stainless steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought
much differently. Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to
about 200 for a couple minutes..)



I stuck a coat hanger in the sparkplug on an oil hot water tank onetime,
went across the room also.

I've had a few trips across a room backwards.

Just Plain [Lucky to be here] Burr wrote:

After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I
finely got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck
the end of an un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the
crap stocked out of me and had to throw myself into space to get away
from it.

Glad to hear you are OK.

But, whatever prompted you to "stick the end of an un-insinuated wire
into a hot 220vAC wire"?

Over 33 years as a telephone man...

What company? What was your job?

"Joe from Kokomo"

Glad to hear you are OK.

Thanks but it's going to take sometime on my knee.

But, whatever prompted you to "stick the end of an un-insinuated wire
into a hot 220vAC wire"?

Just ain't to smart. Wife even told me to watch that wire it maybe hot, it
was!!

Over 33 years as a telephone man...

What company? What was your job?

Got my education from SWB in Dallas then owned my own consulting company all
over the world and a EPBX, LAN and sound systems east of LA.

I started as a Maintenance Lineman worked my way up to a walking PBX man in
Dallas, five years.

Brenda Ann wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided to
mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting into
about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.

My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave oven,
and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than from a
TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched backward
across a room by a jolt like that was something that only happened in
cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile of stainless
steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought much differently.
Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to about 200 for a
couple minutes..)

Like ya say, you think it only happens in a cartoon, but when it happens to you,
it becomes a very, very fast cartoon!

Another story I related to Cuzz Burr this morning had to do with a fellow who
removed what he thought was a defective pressure gauge from a fuel tank access
cover that was in our workspace. The tank itself was directly below us.

The gauge was indeed defective, tank still pressurized, and at the time all our
fire control gear, radar stuff, computers, were fired up.

A few hairy and scary moments there.

I still remember the very shocked look on my fellow sailors face as he tried to
plug the flow of fuel that was spraying out all over the place.

You went almost as high as the Space Shuttle, didn't you?

One time I was replacing one of the wall outlets (120 volts) in my
living room.I didn't turn off the electric power to my living room
because I didn't think I would get shocked.

Never grab two hot wires at the same time while holding pliers in each
hand.You can't let go of them.My body tripped the circuit.I am glad it
wasen't 240 volts I was messing with.
cuhulin