The worst electrical shock I've gotten was from plugging in an 120VAC cord which had a single strand of the stranded line cord sticking out where the plug met the cord. This was outdoors and I was standing barefoot on concrete. A close second was the time I was doing ESD testing at 15kV, was accidentally touching the unit under test AND was holding the ground clip against a bolt in the floor to ground it (and happened at that instant to have unknowingly lost contact with the bolt). So, it was a direct across-the-chest hand to hand 15kV shock, thank God it was from just a 1nF capacitance or I'd be dead. Definitely woke me up! I also once had a funny experience where two of us were debugging a motor drive which used 20kHz, 50V PWM. We were feeling around the PCBA on the tops of components to feel how warm things were getting. My coworker asked why a particular IC was getting so very hot when it wasn't supposed to be a major heat dissipating component. I also went to feel that part and initially it didn't feel warm but I moved my finger a bit and it suddenly felt very hot. After more investigating I discovered that it wasn't hot but it was right next to an exposed terminal which was connected to the PWM. If your finger happened to touch that adjacent terminal, it produced a sensation unlike any other AC or DC electric shock I've ever felt. It felt just like touching a hot object. I guess the high frequency caused a different kind of nerve stimulation. On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:18 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Either way, he was electrocuted by his choice to use his phone, and > that matches an anticipated narrative, feeds the fear, and is > therefore good click bait. We should expect no less from story > writers and editors because that's how they are funded. > > I'm reminded from my own experiments that submerging is not required; > condensation is enough to make a path. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .