ryanr256 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Another fun with electricity story: Years ago my wife and I were rehabbing the house we were living in. Thanfully I'm quite handy and we were able to do a lot of the work ourselves which saved us quite a bit of money. On this particular day I was installing a new circuit breaker in the electrical panel. It's a standard US 200 amp panel with maybe 20 slots for breakers. Of course since I'm "only" plugging in a breaker I do not flip the main off. Yes, I'm working in a hot box. It was a hot and humid day and I was sweating profusely. I tighten the screw holding the wire in the breaker, but dropped the screw driver. I bend down to pick it up and all I remember is seeing a blue flash and waking up on the moving boxes that were about 3 feet from the panel. I sat there for a few minutes and then got up and finished the job. My guess is that when I bent down to get the screw driver, my short, wet hair came close enough to, or even made contact with, the main bus in the panel and, well, I became a path to ground. I don't work in a hot box anymore. -Bob Edited June 22, 2021 by ryanr256 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Wow, that sounded pretty nasty, cooking the old noggin isn't a good idea The worst example of this is a YouTube clip on YouTube where an Indian guy is on top of one of their electric trains and is helping people to pack on board the train. At one point for no sane reason he puts his hand up and touches the live wire, there are 2 enormous bangs, and he's basically cooked. Sadly, it's a real clip, originally was on one of those gore porn sites and got linked in to a forum I used to use, people were not impressed. Respect the live wires... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eyvind Bernhardsen Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 I'm sorry, but no internet discussion of electrical safety is complete without someone linking to a video from ElectroBOOM. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 20 hours ago, ryanr256 said: … but dropped the screw driver. I bend down to pick it up and all I remember is seeing a blue flash … No story of slipping screwdrivers and blue flashes is complete without a reference to the Demon Core. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 23 hours ago, DrVenkman said: No story of slipping screwdrivers and blue flashes is complete without a reference to the Demon Core. Sobering and a little frightening too! One of the reasons I'd rather remain ignorant of theses things. DavidMil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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