That's fer sure... and if it's three phase, you'll have a blue in the mix for low voltage and a black in the mix for the really hot stuff..
There are still (last I knew) some buildings in NYC that are DC supplied. Con Edison probably 15 years ago, maybe even longer, went on a program to attempt to force buildings to convert everything to AC. Property owners in lower Manhattan (where most of this DC stuff is) pitched a female dog about the conversion costs not only from ConEd but in replacing all the rotating equipment in the building... So, Con Ed put rectifier banks out in their stuff to supply the DC to the buildings so they could scrap the DC generating stuff.
I want you to know that getting hit with 240 DC + to - will set your teeth on edge, make you taste metal for days, and give you really sore muscles from the contraction... ;-)
Not that I would have ever experienced that personally...
Ungh...I am feeling that...not from personal experience but because I am so freaking empathetic that I FEEL it! Dang!
The Bestids need to be hit with their own bat of many wattages...
I’ve wasted the last 20 years of my life toiling in a research lab with equipment that supplies 1KVDC for semiconductor characterization. Well, not wasted, the company made good coin on the patents.
It’s funny, because I decided against the the electrical construction work I could have done taking over my father’s business, but I hated shocks.
220 VAC doesn’t feel so good either when someone says, “Let me help!”
* click of ancient pre-lockout/tag out box being turned back on. Sound of busted foil path vaporizing under fingers as hand is repelled backwards*