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How many times have you been electric shocked? and do you remember the voltage?

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fcb:
Multiple 240VAC shocks as a kid building amplifiers and fixing old metal bodied drills, 500V Megger insulation tester, 20kV a few times when developing planar magnetic EHT supplies in the 90's. 40kV fault-finding a laser PSU. Most recently got bitten by an unplugged home-made LISN (and now fit relay triggered resistors to drain the capacitors) - this was probably the worst I can remember as it had been unplugged for sometime and I was putting it back on the shelf when I touched the 13A plug - my arm ached for the rest of the day.

Never had a two handed 'across the chest' type shock though, as a kid I was taught always to approach anything that could cause a shock with my right hand only and keep my left hand in my pocket or well away. Even putting the dishwasher on at home I only ever use by right-hand.

Another trick is the 'light-brush' - if you think there is the slightest remote possibility of a zap, then check the wire/object by touching it with a moving right hand, so that if you get a belt off it can only be momentary due to the motion. I do this even if I've checked mains wiring is off with a multimeter.

Gyro:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/sharing-some-electric-shock-experiences/

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/electric-shock-experiences-for-those-still-alive/

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/tell-us-about-a-time-you-got-electrocuted/

Alex Eisenhut:
I've heard DC is worse than AC.

I got zapped pretty hard by my Tek 547 scope, I was being absurd and trying to power an external circuit with the scopes's 225V DC rail.

Of course I accidentally brushed against an exposed contact and WHAM! my arm went flying and it took a while to get control back ....

It was the combination of the emotional shock of "how dumb am I" and the time it took to get back to normal that was noteworthy.

There is a fun warning sign inside that scope. "potentially" hee hee, nice one Mr Tek .... (this is just some random image, not the one in my 547)


MarkF:
I have been shocked several times by 120VAC @ 60Hz.
The first when I was a child of around 10 years trying to pull a broken prong out of a receptacle plug.

However my most memorable is when my hand touched 120VAC @ 400Hz.
400Hz power reaches out with a nice BITE.  My whole arm hurt the rest of the day.

jonovid:
being stupid  :palm:
240VAC shock as a kid, took a chunk out of my finger
underside of a hoover twin tub washing machine.
other shocks came from
cattle electric fences 1 or 2 kv as less then lethal currents   :o ;D

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