Whats the strangest way you have received a electric shock , and the worst ?

[JD6400]

No matter how careful you are and even if you follow all the protocols , if you have been in this game long enough you will have taken at least one lick or some , substantially more than one ?
So in the interests of highlighting some possible hidden dangers that you just would not think of , lets have them !
I of course have never had one , because i am so good !!!!!!!!:Angel_anim:
But hypothetically if i had , one of the many i am afraid:frown2: would be when tracing a fault on a neighbouring farm in his dairy i put my hands on top of a wall to pull myself up and found about 3 foot of 10mm T+E feeding a water heater that had been totally stripped bare on top by rats , so that would count as one i think ?
Always check first , before touching anything when rats are about !

 

[oldtimer]

I bought an insulation resistance tester a while ago and just out of curiosity I tested an SWA cable supplying a garden shed at 250V / 500V and then 1000V.

When I had finished I went back to the house to re-terminate the cable at the DB and got a nasty shock off the end of the cable.

I've been told it was capacitance, the cable has stored a load of charge from the IR test.

MICC or Pyro is bad for this

 

[DurhamSparky]

was working on a 3p 440v Bilge Pump while on submarine. any way section spark had removed fuses and carried out dead tests.

during the day we had reconnected the Port Bilge Pump and Bowl along with the Starter Panel and associated cables..

we informed the muppet about this and he said he would energise the power to that pump to carry out running checks etc.

as i was working on the Stbd pump bowl surrounded by wet metal work and actually stood in the bilge i moved to the left (tight squeeze) i made contact with the incomers for the starter and actually direct shorted them with each other and my shoulder!! Bang Flash and a Loud Groan from me....! i managed to take 440 and blow the 30A HRC fuse in both phases!!

i was not a happy bunny and when i got out of the rabbit hole i was working in i sat down for ten minutes in total silence with the chief of the watch asking me what the hell happened repeatedly!

the muppet only energised the wrong fecking pump...!!!

 

[dez0178]

From Derry0178,
One of my mates was skimming an internal wall for a customer in his kitchen. My mate said that he kept receiving shocks when applying the skim to the wall. Very weird he thought, then he told the customer about it she also said that she has received shocks also when touching the wall. My friend decided to report this incident to the relevant people. What had happened was that there was bare live wires in the wall, with no basic protection at all. Just think how many dodgy so called trades people are out there doing just this in customers homes, putting people's lives at risk!

 

[dez0178]

Fromm derry0178,
Also Did you here the time when chris Tarrant From who wants to be a millionare went fly fishing. He went for a wee near the river where he was fishing and wee'd up against an electric fence, blacking both balls, Classic!

 

[FAA Greenie]

My only one was a little tickle in a kitchen about four months ago, 3 double sockets to replace, isolated the kitchen ring, tested and disconnected the first socket, dead, same with the second. As i disconnected the third I brushed my the back of my hand against the live and got a small tingle (Wooden floor helped). Tested it, 240v. After a bit of digging around i discovered that it was spurred from an upstairs socket!! Just goes to show that you can never assume that a row of sockets on the same room, on the same wall are all in the same ring. Obviously I check every one now!!!

 

[Phil]

I replaced a standard light switch for a dimmer when I was 14 in my bedroom, turned off at the board etc and replaced. switched it back on all working fine apart from the finger plate. switch back off and bang woops ouch and a fly across the bedroom. straight across the chest and felt like i had a dead arm for a few days. apart from the school boy error i didn`t think it was bad for a 14 year old.