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Re: Off Topic: FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
By:Will N To Go
Date: 9/11/2011, 7:31 pm
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: FREQUENT LIGHTNING... (Etiennemuller Muller Ireland)

: I have been known to jump a couple of feet with only 220 volts.

: Et

I've been shocked a few times. Worse time was in my studio in Montreal. Doing demo I first pulled all the fuses. Yanked on a piece of conduit, didn't jump--couldn't move..... could've been fatal.
Found out there were more fuses in the main hallway.
When I do any electrical work I make sure the circuits are all off. I've seen guys touch the main buss with their hand then ground off on the side of the panel. "See it's OK." Until he's wearing leather soled shoes, sweaty feet and standing on concrete.
Anyone not know concrete conducts? It seems like an insulator doesn't it? I once thought so.

I'm happy I got to paddle in the rain, I feel good that I got off the water, and not seeing anything in the news about dead and injured people on the water I'm relieved the Cognitive Dissonants on their paddle boards survived.
Upton Sinclair said something about this, I loosely paraphrase: It's hard to convince a man of something when his weekend plans depend on him not understanding.
W

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Will N To Go -- 9/10/2011, 1:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2011, 1:34 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/11/2011, 10:52 am
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Kevin M -- 9/11/2011, 5:41 pm
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/11/2011, 6:01 pm
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Will N To Go -- 9/11/2011, 7:31 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/12/2011, 6:53 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/12/2011, 6:47 pm
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Will N To Go -- 9/11/2011, 7:19 pm
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thomas duncan -- 9/11/2011, 7:19 pm
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Will N To Go -- 9/12/2011, 8:12 pm
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Kevin M -- 9/12/2011, 9:00 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2011, 1:30 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/13/2011, 12:00 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 9/13/2011, 4:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/14/2011, 2:08 am