I took 220 once. Knocked me out cold for about 5 minutes. Lucky I was wearing a hard hat. 110 doesn’t feel nice, but it’s more of a tickle compared to getting hit by a semi.
“I took 220 once. Knocked me out cold for about 5 minutes. Lucky I was wearing a hard hat. 110 doesn’t feel nice, but it’s more of a tickle compared to getting hit by a semi.”
Ok...2 questions. 1-Was the Hard Hat Damaged? 2-Was the Semi Damaged? And question 3 of 2: Were YOU damaged?
In my younger days I was a North Sea SAT Diver. All our electricity came from 220 generators. We had divers in the water just about round the clock, so when a relay went bad
everyone was informed that Power would be out for the 10-15 minutes, or so, that it wold take to switch out the relay.
Opened the relay box, turned on the “flashlight” (powerful underwater type), opened the knife switch at the incoming line from the generator, unscrewed the wires from the relay, and instead of reaching in and pulling them off the connectors, for no reason at all. I just popped them off with the screwdriver. The flash was like a welding arc, and damn near blinded me. I changed out the relay (had 2 divers in the water) working “HOT” wires, and when I threw the main knife switch back on nothing happened. Traced back to the generator and reset a circuit breaker and everything came back on line...all within a little over 10 minutes.
How was it possible that the relay box was hot after I had shut off the main switch???
My vision was pretty much back to normal, so I started checking things out.
SOME IDIOT HAD DIRECT WIRED THE GENERATOR INTO THE RELAY BOX BYPASSING THE SHUT OFF SWITCH, PROBABLY BEFORE THE SHUTOFF SWITCH LINE HAD BEEN RUN, AND THE DIRECT LINE HAD NEVER BEEN REMOVED!!!
Human STUPIDITY is the MOST DANGEROUS thing in the entire universe!!!
AGAIN, GOOD LUCK!!!