How does electricity work again?

[raptorGT]

First of all, electricity is good. It makes our computers work, but when no computer is there to absorb the 220 volts of power, it tends to cling to the closest human who's standing in a convenient pool of water or other conductive liquid. Since humans tend to think positively, electricity must be negative. Therefore, it's always the happiest people who get fried!

[Cygnus]

OMG! That poor kid! LOL

How in the heck they put people who dont know enough working around those things ill never know.. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

[Kenny P.]

Damn, that's funny!

Good thing he wasn't touching anything while pissing on himself otherwise he might have electrocuted himself!!!

Electron flow and magic smoke - it's what makes all those 'puter chips work!

Kenny P.

[tempdir]

Electrical smoke and pee smell, I bet this was good for sales.

[USA 1]

Ouch!!!
Well heres one.
Me in 4th or 5th grade.
Lite Brite.
I go to plug in.....
GSHHHHKKKKKKKkkkkk,
Nice little burn on my right hand and a major blister and I was seeing spots because of the flash......Oh and never ,I say NEVER try to see if a phone line is good by checking it with your tongue.......It ain't no 9 volt battery!!!!!! LOL
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[derekb]

hey Wesflash, the kid didn't suffer from a ESD discharge, the system was up and running when he plugged in the DIMM. I agree with your point though.

[DDDWarp]

I have never ruined anything but once I plugged in a modem into a hot system. It zapped one finger pretty bad and I could not use for about 5 minutes. Both parts worked.

I will not tell you all of the almosts, "Is that system on" times.

[ClickHere2Surf.com]

Originally posted by WesFlash:
<STRONG>Be thankful the poor dude didn't get enough current through his heart to die. I used to work on radars, and you gotta turn stuff off if you are going to live when you work on those things. A service procedure checklist might help a few people, bu the talented ones won't look at it. I don't know how many times I used to catch the experienced technicians breaking rules like that kid did or not following ESD procedures. Worse, was when they did it in front of the inexperienced students.....that was always a riot. I, and my fellow instructors, would plan out who would make the best person to make an example of this way, and we made sure all of our eyes watched when it happened too.</STRONG>

A PC is 12 volts, you can't get electrocuted with that even with wet hands!

[Platypus]

Originally posted by ClickHere2Surf.com:
<STRONG>

A PC is 12 volts, you can't get electrocuted with that even with wet hands!</STRONG>

<IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> Yeeesss, and a DIMM will have 5 volts at most, probably 3.3, interesting isn't it?

However with an AT case, inadvertently brushing a spare fingertip against a terminal on the back of the power switch could do it.

[In The Wind]

Not many of the PS on current mfg equipment has an isolation xformer. When it goes to fail mode, you could possibly find lots of high voltage where it shouldn't be, hopefully for very short times, but I wouldn't want my hand in the middle either. RE electric fences, I grew up with them, they provided many an amusing moment and many a shocking reminder. I used to be able to go thru on the "off" cycle but I was a lot younger then.