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Yah 12kV, I'm surprised he wasn't so much fried meat. Probably dropped a lot of load arcing from truck to ground.

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Probably dropped a load in his pants too.

At least, that's what I hear happens when they give you the chair :l :l :l

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when they execute people they give them 2kv. Ive gloved 13.2kv

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An electrician at Eaton was told the power was shut off on a 4kV transformer, go fix it. He whips out his meter to check for voltage anyway, like electricians are, even though his meter only reads to 600V... he gets one lead on the transformer, which has a huge storage capacitor built in that Eaton was too much of a bag of dicks to get him a spec sheet on, and the lead burned up in his hand and the meter blew up in his face. He lived, but he was fucked up and burned pretty bad for a while.

PS - when you say "gloved" I get mental images of running for life from hotrex. Chill out with that ----, okay?

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As an Electrician thats all I read before comcludeing that said "Electrician" is a ------- idiot and deserved what ever came after.
Working on live power is for dip shits.If I cant turn it off, I aint touching it.I'll be dammed if I'm dieing at work :X.

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pretty much alot of the stuff i work on is still energized, or we still treat it as if it were if we dont have the line tested and grounded, work safe or not at all... We also have the tools and protective equipment to do this safely. Ive heard of scenarios like that where guys were testing transformers in the air then had the genious idea to touch one of the leads to the primary bushing with 7160v on it. It usually resulted in a fireball and a very small pile of charred remains of what used to be a voltmeter with some 2nd and 3rd degree burns to the dumbass that tried to measure high voltage with it.

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After getting blown out of a switch panel by 440v 3 phase, I won't mess with anything higher than 24v control voltage.

I was zapped thru both hands, across the chest, ONLY reason I lived, I was on a ladder and fell away.

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Voltage isnt going to hurt you, Amperage will, 10mA can kill a person. You can also have voltage through a circuit without amperage, just not the other way around. You can die working on your cars 12 circuits, just not as likely because DC isnt as harmfull to us as AC.

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yeah, 200 amp sevice, a little more than 10 mA.......

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no you can't. DC is more harmful than AC. You need voltage to build up current.