....will his genes be passed on to another generation? They got this far - Probably more involved than one idiot... On 6/6/17, Sean Breheny wrote: > The worst electrical shock I've gotten was from plugging in an 120VAC cor= d > which had a single strand of the stranded line cord sticking out where th= e > 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 1n= F > 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 aske= d > 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 b= ut > 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 fel= t > 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 >> > -- > 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 .