Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 While I was clearing my stuff off the stage I went to unplug something from a power strip thing when I guess I did something stupid and shocked myself, getting a decent burn on my finger. What I'm wondering is that if I'm not dead already I probably have nothing to worry about at this point right? I've never been electrocuted before and kindof have an irrational fear of it, so I figured I'd ask anyway to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nixhex113 Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 You'll be fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WeStartToDrift Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 If you're not dead you should be fine. Check your gears plugs, you might have an exposed wire? Glad you're OK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefort_1 Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 lemme guess: you got your fingers across the hot/neutral prongs of the power cord? If so, you'll be fine once the scorch heals. If you got it in one hand and out the other, then you coulda done a little more serious damage....but if you're around to talk about it, you're likely gonna be just fine. If you wanna swap stories, I could tell my "got accidentally defib'd" cautionary tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 Haha awesome, thanks guys. I figured it was fine, but it was a pretty weird thing to happen so I wanted to make sure. Time to trouble shoot some power chords I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 lemme guess: you got your fingers across the hot/neutral prongs of the power cord? If so, you'll be fine once the scorch heals.If you got it in one hand and out the other, then you coulda done a little more serious damage....but if you're around to talk about it, you're likely gonna be just fine.If you wanna swap stories, I could tell my "got accidentally defib'd" cautionary tale. That could be it I suppose. I was in business mode at the time though and wasn't really paying attention so I really cant say for sure. I did just feel it in my one hand though so I'm guessing it didn't really go through me or anything. That sounds like a crazy story though, do tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonny guitar Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 Electrocuted means to be killed by electricity....you are fine but you are suffering from a case of severe exaggeration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 Electrocuted means to be killed by electricity....you are fine but you are suffering from a case of severe exaggeration. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 electrocutedpast participle, past tense of e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefort_1 Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 That sounds like a crazy story though, do tell. In '82 I worked for the company that got the first AED (automaic defibrillator) through FDA approval. Did some engineering, but mostly tech-work in manufacturing. I was the designated "un{censored} this {censored}ed up unit" guy, and worked many Saturday's on units that the regular techs could not figure out. This particular unit was known to have been wired up horribly wrong in the high voltage section (just basically a defib cap, a HUGE foilcoil for wave shaping, the HV supply, a massive 16 KV relay, a dummy load that should have been across the cap when the relay was at rest, and a 1000:1 divider so mear mortal DMMs could look at the HV cap (5 Kv lives there, when charged). Well, this unit would whine horribly when it charged and could never deliver the 400 Joule charge properly....and smelt of ozone. So it was put in my pile where I dug into it on a Saturday when there was only me and the janitor inthe building. So I start hanging my meter on the 1000:1 divider...looks to be 0.0V...good. So i start tracing out all the wiring which, back in '82, only came in one color : white. No color-coded, highly flexible 6Kv-rated wire yet available. Being a good, safe employee, I use only one hand to trace the wires, and have my other hand 3 feet away on a rubber antistatic mat. Anyway, so I trace wires from the high voltage Supply to the first relay to the cap and.....PHHHHZAP! a brilliant blue arc reaches out from one of the Cap terminals, jumps a half inch and hits my fingertip. The only things I remember from there was seeing the ceiling roll past me, over my head, and a strange sensation like my shouldblades slapped together. (I gueass about) 5 minutes later, the face of the janitor peers down at me thru the fog and says "well, I guess he's gonna be ok...." . I slowly come to and drag my ass into the local Urgent Care facility and tell my story. Once the Doc verified I was alivehe starts asking all these questions like "what did you feel?" and "do you remember any pain?" and stuff like that. I asked him why, and he said "well, you're one of the few people who's ever been defibrillated who might remeber what it was like...you see, everyone else who gets that shock is dead." ...makes you kinda think. Anyway, he said my shoulder blades probably DID meet somewhere behind my back, due to the massive shock and the ultimate muscle contraction it causes....and oh yeah....my ribs ached for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cisco Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 Electricity + Executed = Electrocuted You got shocked. Sincerely, Cisco, journeyman high-voltage cable splicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 This is what I get for typing colloquially Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 In '82 I worked for the company that got the first AED (automaic defibrillator) through FDA approval. Did some engineering, but mostly tech-work in manufacturing. I was the designated "un{censored} this {censored}ed up unit" guy, and worked many Saturday's on units that the regular techs could not figure out. This particular unit was known to have been wired up horribly wrong in the high voltage section (just basically a defib cap, a HUGE foilcoil for wave shaping, the HV supply, a massive 16 KV relay, a dummy load that should have been across the cap when the relay was at rest, and a 1000:1 divider so mear mortal DMMs could look at the HV cap (5 Kv lives there, when charged). Well, this unit would whine horribly when it charged and could never deliver the 400 Joule charge properly....and smelt of ozone. So it was put in my pile where I dug into it on a Saturday when there was only me and the janitor inthe building. So I start hanging my meter on the 1000:1 divider...looks to be 0.0V...good. So i start tracing out all the wiring which, back in '82, only came in one color : white. No color-coded, highly flexible 6Kv-rated wire yet available. Being a good, safe employee, I use only one hand to trace the wires, and have my other hand 3 feet away on a rubber antistatic mat. Anyway, so I trace wires from the high voltage Supply to the first relay to the cap and.....PHHHHZAP! a brilliant blue arc reaches out from one of the Cap terminals, jumps a half inch and hits my fingertip. The only things I remember from there was seeing the ceiling roll past me, over my head, and a strange sensation like my shouldblades slapped together. (I gueass about) 5 minutes later, the face of the janitor peers down at me thru the fog and says "well, I guess he's gonna be ok...." . I slowly come to and drag my ass into the local Urgent Care facility and tell my story. Once the Doc verified I was alivehe starts asking all these questions like "what did you feel?" and "do you remember any pain?" and stuff like that. I asked him why, and he said "well, you're one of the few people who's ever been defibrillated who might remeber what it was like...you see, everyone else who gets that shock is dead."...makes you kinda think.Anyway, he said my shoulder blades probably DID meet somewhere behind my back, due to the massive shock and the ultimate muscle contraction it causes....and oh yeah....my ribs ached for weeks. Damn man that's crazy. The doctor's right though, I can't say I know many people who have been defibed consciously before. That's some pretty serious bragging rights right there but I bet is was frighting as hell when it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cisco Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 You haven't lived until you've been hung-up in a T-bar ceiling with 277v going through your flailing carcass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArrMatey Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 You haven't lived until you've been hung-up in a T-bar ceiling with 277v going through your flailing carcass. Then I'd rather call my life dull, if you excuse me. That doesn't sound like my favourite afternoon delight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Reauchambeau Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 You haven't lived until you've been hung-up in a T-bar ceiling with 277v going through your flailing carcass. my uncle is an industrial electrician and has been hit twice and hospitolized for extensive periods of time. it shot out his hands and feet if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hupia Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 I see no one is stepping forth for this... i'm surprised i'm gonna have to be the one to break it to you... you've got 17 hours, tops... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OMTerria Posted May 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 But there is so much porn I haven't seen D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hupia Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 i am terribly terribly sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grueller Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 Even just reading about this, I'm having a hundred thoughts race through my mind. I can't even imagine how hard this must be for you, and I'm very sorry. You truly are a brave soul. Live those last hours to the fullest. My mojo will be with you, friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HP Hovercraft Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 I work with electricity. We used to let it slide when one of us got shocked, but now we're supposed to go to the hospital. Apparently it can screw with your heart rhythm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AimmarCair Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 But there is so much porn I haven't seen D: What do you think heaven is for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Player99 Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 I work with electricity. We used to let it slide when one of us got shocked, but now we're supposed to go to the hospital. Apparently it can screw with your heart rhythm. He couldn't keep a beat before... now his timing is bang on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 At some point in the next week if you feel slight indigestion then that's the dead burned intestine starting to mortify as it blocks your arteries and starves your brain of blood. At that point, I'd stop worrying because it won't do you any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Reauchambeau Posted May 4, 2012 Members Share Posted May 4, 2012 concentration, rumination and intentional thinking, all rely on electrical activity in the brain cells. basically you've fried your brain, you may have small to severe memory loss and propable brain damage as well as early dementia and alzheimer's developement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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