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| veganfan |
A story from coworker. Scary and cruel, but funny. They were working in the air in a bucket truck at a factory. They had to do rewiring and even though unsafe and illegal a lot of electricians use the nearest grounded object to trip breakers. So they disconnect a 277v line and tuch it to some duct work large duct work. At that point they heard a rumble in the duct work, but the breaker did no trip. So they hit it again, and again a srange rumbleing sound came from duct work. Puzzled on what sound was they looked around saw no problems. So they did third time and breaker tripped, but sound happened again. They worked for a while and came down for break. During their break two subcontractors came up to the two. Then said to them we do not know what is wrong, but we are cleaning out air ducts, and something keeps shocking the @#!@ out of us.
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| Kraze | LOL...good one:) almost as funny as when I use to take charged capacitors from a power supply(200v) and hit people on the back of their necks. |
| jerryrig | quote: We had just been issued new radios and a neat feature was the vibrate mode. I was on a 8' ladder changing a bad ballast in a light(Live of course) 277volts. just as I cut the hot wire, my new radio vibrator went off, after I picked my self up off of the floor, I decited to always leave the radio on audio signal. Jerryrig |
| Scott Vickrey | My phone has done this to me a couple of times with absolute presice timing too. Thanks for the warning about the ladder. 
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| IndCom | I remember back not too long ago when everyone wore pagers instead of phones. Was making taps in a really nasty and old gutter that was extremely tight on working clearance issues. Anyway, vibrator on pager goes off, I clear about 3 foot of air space up and about 5 feet back all at the same time. Pager stayed in truck when making taps after that. |
| wood111 | Back to the shocking part. We had a 3 phase disconnect spring loaded type 600 amp 480 vac locked out tagged out for 2 weeks while some preventative maintenance was being performed. I am the technician and was requested by our maintenance men to give them a hand. At that time I noticed some lights on in this locked out tagged out panel. Here there were 2 phase's of the 480 vac that were passing through the disconnect. This was not found due to two reason's. First the maintenance man didn't check for power on the bottom side of the disconnect and second the spring held down the disconnect switch once that (the spring) was released the switch popped back up as if it was on. The defective disconnect was returned to the MFG. for evaluation. Message to all just because the switch says OFF check for voltage with a meter it may save your Life. |