raise your hand if you've ever been shocked

[oldschool]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

maybe i was absent that day but i dont believe induction is affected by humidity.......but the arc definately is

 

[treehumper]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

Oops, should be conduction not induction....

Magnetic fields are not affected by the humidity...

 

[TANNER]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

The last time that I got hit, the guy that I working for told me that I had plenty of room. I couldn't tell from where I was standing at, so I took his word for it. When I cut the limb I cut it slow so it would break back as much as it could. Well it brushed the line, and gave me a little tingle. I yelled at him and told him that it got me! He didn't even believe me! Said that if it would have got me that I wouldn't be talking or standing still. He will figure it out someday!

 

[TLHamel]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

I got zapped about seven years ago. A small (8") ash tree beneath the primary. I cut it at the base and was pulling the butt toward the chipper when the tips contacted the line. I was very lucky, felt like I stuck my finger in a lamp with no bulb. If I knew then what I know now...

 

[ipkyss]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

Is there a general distance for Transfer lines? The really large, massive lines? Normally in the woods or going through fields. Not sure what kind of power goes through them. I was a good few hundred feet a way in a yard that was next to power line property. Still didn't like it at all. Could hear the hum from the lines

 

[The_Archdruid]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

The most common transmission line I worked on was 230kV, and for that we needed ~10ft limits of approach. And while they have enough energy to make you explode into hamburger, you get used to them like any other line.

The real beast out there is the bigger 765kV lines. When you get close to those you can feel your nuts* shake!





*Or, alternately, the more gender-neutral "gonads".

 

[southsoundtree]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

You gotta wonder what that does to the swimmers.

 

[The_Archdruid]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

They get out of the pool.

 

[southsoundtree]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

You do have to wonder if they get out, or change from backstroke or front crawl to swimming in circles.

 

[The_Archdruid]

Re: raise your hand if you\'ve ever been shocked

Okay . . . uh, we're now officially two guys talking about sperm on a public forum . . . we are talking about sperm, right?

Can we get a Moderator here?