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This is why i hate getting into a Color Classic.
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I've been hit off of 30kv once. matter of fact it was in LC 575 that I was working on years ago it was on and I was not paying attention I laid my arm right on the anode cap. and actually I believe they run somewhere around 21 kilovolts.
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I've been electrocuted lots of times, and I'm still fine as far as you know.
I had this great little contraption as my fifth grade science fair project, which I built from instructions in a book in the school library.
First, get an old electrical cord. Ask your Mom if she has an old iron from which you can cut the cord. Cut the cord. Strip about 1/2" insulation off of each wire. Wrap the wires around the ends of two separate carbon rods. Get the carbon rods by disassembling spent 'D' cells. Get two more carbon rods, and connect them with a length of wire. Suspend one carbon rod from each of the cords in a glass of salt water. Plug in the electrical cord. Holding the other two carbon rods (the ones not in the salt water) with clothes pins, touch the tips of the rods together and then pull them apart.
Voila, home made carbon arc.
I touched the bare wires in the wrong spots, I don't know how many times.
Later in life, I would do the same with Mac CRTs...
I had this great little contraption as my fifth grade science fair project, which I built from instructions in a book in the school library.
First, get an old electrical cord. Ask your Mom if she has an old iron from which you can cut the cord. Cut the cord. Strip about 1/2" insulation off of each wire. Wrap the wires around the ends of two separate carbon rods. Get the carbon rods by disassembling spent 'D' cells. Get two more carbon rods, and connect them with a length of wire. Suspend one carbon rod from each of the cords in a glass of salt water. Plug in the electrical cord. Holding the other two carbon rods (the ones not in the salt water) with clothes pins, touch the tips of the rods together and then pull them apart.
Voila, home made carbon arc.
I touched the bare wires in the wrong spots, I don't know how many times.
Later in life, I would do the same with Mac CRTs...
Yes, because you get careless when you think you know what you are doing.they say you do not get electrocuted when you are new.
they say you get electrocuted when you get comfortable with electricity.
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That's not careless, that is either getting too comfortable or working too tired. Been there too many times.
You got that right. Me and a certain neon sign transformer have been friends for too long, I used it as a laser power supply in the 80s & 90s, it used me as conduit to ground on every chance it got! #$#&*#%@!!! Neon Sign PSU!they say you do not get electrocuted when you are new.
they say you get electrocuted when you get comfortable with electricity.
And that's not to mention the TVs and CRT (including a few macs) that got me as well!
After a while, you just get used to it!
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Wow, that was great. I was cringing so hard when he had his fingers in the water. I guess I've seen to many movies.or you are just plain crazy
