Note to self:

[StuKeith]

Always remember to turn off the power if plugging in a mains lead into a psu, while holding the socket! :blink::blink:

[Buleste]

Always remember to turn off the power if plugging in a mains lead into a psu, while holding the socket! :blink::blink:

Nah! It's much more fun living on the edge.

[StuKeith]

Yea, but it bloody hurts! My arm is still numb!!!

[Buleste]

Electricity roulette is always a buzz. I've done it many times and never learned the lesson yet. Besides it keeps you on your toes.

[Harrison]

At least you know your heart is OK! ;)

I've electrocuted myself a couple of times in the past. Once I was trying to get an Atari ST to work. The internal PSU was faulty with its circuit board having become bowed which had caused a dry joint issue. I tried straightening out the circuit board with a plastic bull dog clip, but when i switched the system on the board must have been pushed down too far as the board shorted out and a load of the capacitors exploded. Great fun to watch but it hurt!

The other was when i was trying to adjust the screen of an old monitor using the internal adjusters you get on the back of the tube. The monitor didn't have a case on it and I accidentally touched the metal harness. That really hurt! And I saw a huge blue spark!

[Buleste]

CRT monitors are a definite no, no when it comes to home repairs. Capacitors will make you go toasty. I've only been shocked about 5 times this year (Slow year) twice on a DVD twice off SCART sockets (God knows how as they hardly carry any current) and once off a PSU. Thing is there are people who pay to have experiances like that it some exclusive places.

[Stephen Coates]

I have had some small electric shocks by touching the metal part of the video recorders case, where a bit of paint had been chipped off, and also by touching a bit of wire in a scart cable. They were only small though and didn't hurt.

I also tend to get electric shocks from cars (silver ones mostly), but this hasn't happened for over a year.

I've never had an electric shock from a CRT though, even when messing with the little controls in the back of it. I did however, get a headache when it was switched on with the cover removed.

[Buleste]

I've never had an electric shock from a CRT though, even when messing with the little controls in the back of it. I did however, get a headache when it was switched on with the cover removed.

Strange. Did you have your head in it at the time??

[Harrison]

Those huge magnets working on your brain, probably pulling the fluid towards it like the moon!

I've often felt slight electrical tingles from scart sockets, but that doesn't really count cause the current is so low. Just used to control channel switching.

[J T]

I got quite a tingle from an aerial lead once. Can't remember exactly what I was doing but it was while I was working in the TV shop and was tidying up all the messy cable trails. I think I was holding a lead from the telly and a lead from the aerial distribution set up in the palm of the same hand. It hurt a bit but in a weird 'warm' way.

Also got a biggie when I was taing off a metal light switch. I'd pulled all the fuses for the lights but this one was wired into a different ring. Luckily it had a breaker but **** me it hurt, right from one hand across the chest to the other. Could've been a LOT worse, I was quite shaken up. My wife (then GF at that time) laughed when she saw it happen until I shouted at her. I don't think she realised how serious it could've been, nor how much it hurt.

[Bloodwych]

StuKeith, how did you manage to get a shock? I've plugged in leads to PSU's before with the power on and all it does is make a crackle sound??

I'm truly shocked (if you'll mind the pun) that you lot have been cooking yourselves! I've never been shocked badly, but I'm totally paranoid about such stuff as I wouldn't want any small current going across my heart! Perhaps I'm a wuss, I feel so left out. :(

I have been shocked by this game though and it hurts bad! It's such a laugh, especially while you're drinking a few beers in your local pub! LOL!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1D_A20aKzaQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ohBlp_uL6KU

and as you can imagine, people find ways of using it for other activities:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OcKCSPhlw

:D

[StuKeith]

StuKeith, how did you manage to get a shock? I've plugged in leads to PSU's before with the power on and all it does is make a crackle sound??

I've never been shocked badly, but I'm totally paranoid about such stuff as I wouldn't want any small current going across my heart! Perhaps I'm a wuss, I feel so left out. :(

I have been shocked by this game though and it hurts bad! It's such a laugh, especially while you're drinking a few beers in your local pub! LOL!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1D_A20aKzaQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ohBlp_uL6KU

and as you can imagine, people find ways of using it for other activities:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OcKCSPhlw

:D

I was doing some more to the A500/PC conversion. I have taken the 3 pin plug adapter out and I was holding the back of it while plugging the mains lead in, so basicly i was touching the live wire of the kettle lead!

I was also sitting on a metal chair as well!

I thought I switched it off tbh at the mains.

[TiredOfLife]

Gave myself a little shock trying to install a printer late in work.
managed to get my finger between the printer cable and the socket on the computer.

[Submeg]

nice work :smartass:

[Demon Cleaner]

I once repaired an electric drill at work, unplugged the cord first and opened it. I went to the toilet, came back, fiddled around with the drill and *BAM*, some idiot plugged it in again. It was supposed to be a joke at 8:30am, I can tell you, I was railing, but I was at least awake.

[Buleste]

There's nothing like the smell of ozone and burning flesh first thing in the morning to wake you up. Especially when the burning flesh is your own.

[Harrison]

Would have looked quite cool with a drill fused into your arm. Could have led to many minor bit part roles in future horror films and Silent Hill games!

[Submeg]

Lol yep I can see that! Lol

[FOL]

On this subject, i get shocks to, but static shocks, I cant go near a SONY piece of hifi or dvd, without it resetting. Even thought a DVD was faulty before realising my static charge was causing a micro reset, lmfao, :)

[Buleste]

On this subject, i get shocks to, but static shocks, I cant go near a SONY piece of hifi or dvd, without it resetting. Even thought a DVD was faulty before realising my static charge was causing a micro reset, lmfao, :)

I'm sure that there could be a money making opertunity in STATIC MAN. Even if there isn't it still must be fun going round to people and giving them a shock. And then using your powers over static electricity on them.

[Submeg]

I'm sure that there could be a money making opertunity in STATIC MAN. Even if there isn't it still must be fun going round to people and giving them a shock. And then using your powers over static electricity on them.

SORRY! I take that crown....I get shocked by plants, plastic bags, wood.....anything that doesnt conduct, I get shocked by it...trust me, getting shocked by a plant is just wrong :( I take five steps, and I have built up enough charge to shock someone. Must be my huge thighs rubbing together ;) lol

[v85rawdeal]

I am going to dedicate a song to you guys....

Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric"!

[Harrison]

On this subject, i get shocks to, but static shocks, I cant go near a SONY piece of hifi or dvd, without it resetting. Even thought a DVD was faulty before realising my static charge was causing a micro reset, lmfao, :)

I hope you never get a job building computers!

[Buleste]

On this subject, i get shocks to, but static shocks, I cant go near a SONY piece of hifi or dvd, without it resetting. Even thought a DVD was faulty before realising my static charge was causing a micro reset, lmfao, :)

I hope you never get a job building computers!

Instead get a job at PC World.:lol:

[Submeg]

Oooooh! Harsh ;)

[Harrison]

But Oh so true!

Man takes PC into PC World because it won't boot up. Real problem is that the OS has got screwed up and Windows needs reinstalling. Instead PC world convince him that the motherboard, harddrive and ram need to be replaced. Nice profit for them, plus they then have the old working components from the system to repair the next idiot who walks through the door!

Another great place for PC repairs is Currys. A guy I worked with, who had very limited computer knowledge, was given a PC from his son because he had upgraded. He had trouble getting it to work so for some strange and unfathomable reason he took it to Currys for them to look at. The conclusion, and these are the words they used, the "tower" is faulty and needs replacing, so he accepted this and bought a new one! So basically his son gave him a compete second-hand PC, and Currys then convinced him to buy a whole new PC, so all he actually was still using was the mouse, keyboard and monitor his son gave him. I don't think he ever did realise the "tower" was actually the whole computer. Mad!

So many gullible people out there. Why can't I ever meet them! ;)

[Buleste]

So many gullible people out there. Why can't I ever meet them! ;)

What do you think we are???

[toomanymikes]

My dad was almost elctrocuted (tricuted - however you spell it...) when he was working at a sewerage plant. He was subcontracted out for a week to this place and was in the main fuse room measuring a wall opposite the fuse gear. Anyhoos, hes got his metal tape measure up the wall and it kinks in the middle and falls over his shoulder straight into the fuses, which some idiot had left cover caps off. The tape had a black burn up it 2.5m from its end where the electricity had went prior to the fuses blowing - he could actually measure how close he came to dieing!

[Harrison]

That is quite mad, to be able to actually measure your distance from death!

He now knows how LONG he has to live! ;)

[Buleste]

That is quite mad, to be able to actually measure your distance from death!

He now knows how LONG he has to live! ;)

Right thats it, i'm calling for a ban on bad Puns.

[J T]

That is quite mad, to be able to actually measure your distance from death!

He now knows how LONG he has to live! ;)

Right thats it, i'm calling for a ban on bad Puns.

Yeah, there have been some real shockers in this topic.

[Stephen Coates]

Not quite an electric shock but my teacher wanted me to touch the end of some massive capacitors to check to check that they weren't charged. I knew they wouldn't have been charged, but they are big, and you never know, so I was a little hesitant to touch it.

He did then go on to demonstrate charging a 65000 microfarad capacitor with 30volts and then shorting the two terminals together. There was a very large spark and a bang. He did touch the terminals with his finger but that wasn't a good enough conductor. Then he got a smaller 100microfarad capacitor and connected it the wrong way round to demonstrate how they blow up. Luckily he put it in a cardboard box as there was a very loud bang and lots of smoke.

[toomanymikes]

Some of the jokes on here make my hair stand on end!

[v85rawdeal]

Watt a carry one. If this continues, I suggest we all re-volt!

[Submeg]

GAH! You people are ridiculous! :lol: Seriously, you have sucked all the juice from this topic, there are no more crispy one liners to crack you all up. A shame that :D

[Teho]

All these bad electricity puns remind me of the endscroller of Andromeda's demo Sequential. It featured a tiny story called "the sex-life of an electron". It was full of the worst puns imaginable, "blowing eachother's fuse" and the like. Will see if I can dig the text up from somewhere.

Edit: Ah yes, here we go:


The Sex Life Of An Electron

One night, when his charge was pretty high, Micro Farad decided to seek out a cute little coil to let him discharge. He picked up Millie Amp and took her for a ride on his megacycle.

They rode across the Wheatstone bridge, around the sine wave, and stopped in the magnetic field, by a flowing current. Micro Farad, attracted by Millie Amp's characteristic curves, soon had her fully charged and excited. Her resistance was at a minimum. He laid her on the ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her resistance.

He pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it into her socket, connecting them in paralell, and began short circuiting her resistance shunt. Fully excited Millie Amp mumbled "ohm ohm ohm". With his tube operating at a maximum, and her field vibrating with his current flow, it caused her shunt to overheat, and Micro Farad was drained of every electron.

They fluxed all night, trying various connections and sockets, until his magnet had a soft core and lost all its field strength.

With his battery fully discharged, Millie Amp was unable to excite Micro Farad's field, so she tried self-induction and damaged her solenoids.

Afterwards they spent the rest of the night reversing polarity and blowing each others fuse.

The end.

[Harrison]

:lol: That's great. Glad you remembered that one Teho. :thumbs:

[Submeg]

Damn that is so nerdy :fool:

[TiredOfLife]

I'm sure that there could be a money making opertunity in STATIC MAN. Even if there isn't it still must be fun going round to people and giving them a shock. And then using your powers over static electricity on them.

SORRY! I take that crown....I get shocked by plants, plastic bags, wood.....anything that doesnt conduct, I get shocked by it...trust me, getting shocked by a plant is just wrong :( I take five steps, and I have built up enough charge to shock someone. Must be my huge thighs rubbing together ;) lol

That's not the image I wanted in my mind especially at this hour of the morning.

Cheers

[Submeg]

Lol, my bad. It was meant purely as a joke, no bad mental pictures intended. :lol:

[v85rawdeal]

I'm sure that there could be a money making opertunity in STATIC MAN. Even if there isn't it still must be fun going round to people and giving them a shock. And then using your powers over static electricity on them.

SORRY! I take that crown....I get shocked by plants, plastic bags, wood.....anything that doesnt conduct, I get shocked by it...trust me, getting shocked by a plant is just wrong :( I take five steps, and I have built up enough charge to shock someone. Must be my huge thighs rubbing together ;) lol

That's not the image I wanted in my mind especially at this hour of the morning.

Cheers

At least he didn't say they were nylon-encased huge thighs!!!

*has now got images of Big Daddy (Huge deceased British wrestler) doing the Time Warp on stage :sick::sick::sick::sick::sick: