Notice to DIY people

[sxsparky]

Notice to DIY PEOPLE

NEVER mess with electricity!


Electricity is fascinating and useful—but it can also be incredibly dangerous. The electricity that flows from power plants travels at thousands of times higher voltages than the electricity in our homes. If you are stupid enough to touch anything connected to power equipment, you will almost certainly die a very painful and unpleasant death. So heed warnings like this one and stay well away.
The electricity that comes out of household power sockets is also plenty dangerous enough to kill you, so keep away from that too. Don't play with household power sockets under any circumstances and never take apart electrical appliances, because dangerous voltages can linger inside even after they are switched off.

Call an electrician you tight git!!!
by not and trying to do it yourself it could cost you alot more and even your or your family's life

 

[telectrix]

as previos posts, sx, it's only banter. we all get some stick now and then ( as the solicitor said to the dominatrix )

 

[alarm man]

i agree with sx,he has a valid point.....

 

[Darkwood]

how do you delete your account on this site as i am sick of idiots arguing and think they are above people!

Your Opening post is full of misguided errors and almost a brainwashed view, i mearly and constructively corrected them, posting such a thread will invitedly create debate, i myself dont think im above anyone but i would expect anyone reading my posts or others on this thread to skip over the ones (ignore) that have little constuctive value and take in the ones that do show you a differing view to your way of thinking and then weigh up either you response as been a good debatable one or even a ' thx' or maybe even one of disagreement, its what this sites about 'asking, learning debating and helping' with sometime a little sarcasm and humour thrown in.

Try not to let the various replies get to you, i too post things and get shot down occasionally but its how you learn by chatting with crowds in a similar line of employment, not a reason to delete your account though.

 

[D80]

A DIYER, good or bad, will only call you when it doesn't work. Safety matters not, only that it works.

No tests are/can be conducted on anything, but it works. For now.

 

[Darkwood]

close the door behind you

I had to laugh more at your profile pic ..it seems your comment fitted it just nicely then.

 

[UNG]

Any shock could kill you!!

If your in cardiac arrest it may useful to get a shock

 

[b3ta]

I am a DIY person, and I understand the frustration vented thus far: I'm in IT, so I'm sure you can imagine the problems I must sort out --- my parents-in-law are bringing their laptop to my daughter's birthday party, so I can sort out something for them:sad_smile:.

That said, I should explain why I joined this forum. A passion of mine is doing live sound. Part of it entails fixing things that break during a performance, when you cannot wait for an electrician (or whoever) to come along. Sometimes these things relate to sound-level issues (milli-amps and milli-volts), other times to mains problems. I thus have quite a strange cllection of testing gear and tools. I also work as safely as possible, and have no issue referring to someone with more knowledge (which is why I joined).

At our Church the fact of the matter is that every single qualified electrician we've had, made a mess of things from the perspective of impacting the sound. Maybe what was done is according to spec, but it is useless if there is a mains hum in the system as a result, for example.

Does anyone on this forum have experience in the field (if you pardon the pun) of electricity and live sound reinforcement? I have looked and asked, and thus far it has been a sad tale of a lack of understanding and no documentation left behind by any previous electrician.

By the way, I am in South Africa (Pretoria), but we were a colony for long enough to have had some benefit from UK standards (at least, I hope so).

 

[Dan]

You've got no worries with me. I get a bit jittery when I'm plugging HDMI cables in as I had a (small) shock off one once because I didn't turn the TV off when I was connecting it to the Xbox!!!! haha - I get the Mrs to change the lightbulbs now.

 

[kenny james]

never mind d.i.y people messing with electrics i could also put some qualified sparks work into dispute too which i have come across lately!
while we are at it might as well have a petition to stop the government churning out these stupid 3 week courses to train people to become "a qualified spark" now that is dangerous.