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

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lisarose9:
More times than I can remember  :-DD

but it was never more than 200V

wraper:
Too many times to count. Largest voltage was about 25kV from CRT TV, not that bad actually. The worst was around 1kV form 10uF film cap, quite painful. Also 3 phase AC certainly felt worse than single phase.

Shannon:

--- Quote from: sibeen on February 01, 2021, 02:13:34 am ---Quite a few times with 240 volts. Back in the late 80s and the 90s I was a commissioning engineer for large UPS systems so mains voltages were ubiquitous throughout the equipment and sometimes, even when you thought you were careful, shit happened. The systems also used DC voltages at around 500 volts, with some units with voltages up at around 900 volts but with those I always tread very, very carefully and thankfully never got a belt from that.

My worst experience was getting 415 volts from forearm to forearm. Completely my fault. I'd come in on a Saturday morning at a client's site to do some work on a 400 kVA UPS. I'd transferred the site load across to maintenance bypass, shut down the UPS, and then switched off the supply to the UPS. Or at least I thought I had. I wasn't thinking, I was a bit hungover, and failed to realise that even though the screen on the UPS was dead that this unit was dual fed and I'd only turned off one of the incoming supplies. I reached around some three phase busbars and managed to contact the outside two bars with my forearms. I was thrown a few metres back and was stopped by a wall. The site manager was looking at me ashen faced but I told him I was OK, went outside and sat down for ten or so minutes - or two smokes worth - and then went back inside and continued to work. The stupidity of youth.

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Salute!  :-+ 

Zeyneb:
I think just one time:

As a kid one day it was my duty to vacuum the car. But my dad was a cheapskate so we didn’t have a proper extension lead that reach 25 meter or so. Instead we had to put together many sections of just 1.5 m of extensions to reach the car from the house. When you are a kid you don’t know any better and think this is kind of normal. The extensions were of inferior quality. I think it were leftovers from my dad as a student. One section had exposed live metal. As I had used this many times I didn’t pay much attention to it. I was watching a discussion between my mom and my dad over my shoulder when I shocked myself on these exposed metal parts. That was painful and I had a big burn on one of my fingers.

It was 230V.

My mom got very angry with my dad and he was forced to agree on buying a proper extension lead.

duckduck:
Only once that I remember. It was from a "chirping bird" Christmas tree ornament that ran off of 120V mains. I still remember the brown and green through-hole components on that PCB. I was young, maybe seven years old. I removed the case and tried to pick it up while it was still plugged in. BZZZZZZap! across part of my right hand. I clearly remember that extremely un-natural 60 Hz buzz. I think that vivid early memory has kept me from being lazy with electrical safety.

EDIT: Attached a picture of one from the internets.

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