XOIIO - It's been a day since your last post here. Are you still alive?
His electric shock alarm clock probably gave him a heart attack.
Lol, good one
I actually totally forgot about this forum post. I still plan on making the Shock Clock (patent pending), a couple hundred volts from bug zappers/camera flash circuits (without the caps of course) doesn't bug me at all, I got pretty used to it (not across the chest though, although I did that a few times) so just having the contacts close is enough to make my arm twitch a bit still until the third or fourth time and I'm used to it, the thing that's really stopping me is just finding a way to make a good wrist strap that will maintain good skin contact, I was thinking maybe some conductive thread, though that's a tad expensive I think, and there's still the matter of getting it to connect to the wires securely and durably, I was thinking maybe some elastic wrist strap and a couple metal buttons would work well (the kinds that snap together in two parts) because I could pinch the wires together between those.
The shock clock is a pretty catchy name actually
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I've accidentally shocked myself on 400-450V caps charged to 100-350V before. With the 350V my heart skipped at least two beats. If I were older or in worse shape I might have died. I take precautions now to avoid that sort of thing. A painful zap is one thing. Feeling your heart almost stopping is another.
Only needed to feel that once to go from "Yeah, I'll take some precautions unless I'm tired or in a hurry" to "This shit gets discharged safely now, or if I can't do that, I wait until it discharges naturally. No exceptions, and damn the time it takes." Deliberately charging a cap to high voltage and discharging it for fun, without taking extensive safety precautions before-hand... Is something I'll leave for those who place a much lower valuation on their life than I do.
High voltage is dangerous, kids.
Interesting, any idea the current it was at? as I said in bit above I've been shocked with similar voltages though pretty low current across the chest and while it was a little big of a jolt, it definitely didn't make my heart miss any beats.
Sometimes I think I have a weird resistance to electricity, I'd have to go to the police to volunteer to be tasered to see how much, but I seem to not be bothered by it as much as other people. A few weeks ago after finding some crappy jumper cable like clips (from an old spark plug tester gun sort of device, I still have the shell from it someone, a big chrome metal thing that fired up a neon tube I believe) I didn't notice the poor quality of the rubber, I had it hooked to the UPS transformer wired up to give 36v AC and I don't know how many, but it's a lot of amps (I need to buy an ebay clamp meter to find out, it puts out a buttload of current from what I can tell though) and god zapped a bit, thing is it wasn't bad at all, I wouldn't have done it again but I would have expected worse. The things were rusty as hell though so I doubt I made good contact.
It makes me wonder if some people are more resistant to electric shock than others. Maybe it's just a combination of luck, having dry hands and being used to shocks, and a little bit of insanity perhaps.
Heh, I remember my first shock, I had just had a shower (many many years ago by the way) and was going to plug in our TV, and I got zapped pretty darn good, I was stuck to the outlet for a second or two, I guess my finger was a bit too close or on the outlet prongs, but I remember thinking A: holy crap and B: that was kind of awesome. I did know better than to try it again, but I've always kind of liked electric shock a bit since then.
... something's wrong with me isn't there? lol