Question about electric shock

[Pete999]

twice in 27 years, i'm a good boy

Bull Poo lol

 

[telectrix]

but the flip side is hilarious.

 

[gazdkw82]

I remember being electrocuted twice when I was about 8 because I had bunkbeds and I thought I grownup enough to change my own lightbulbs....in the dark!

I remember feeling a buzz on my index finger. I don't remember feeling like it scared me or anything, in fact I remember laughing. Never had a shock since

 

[Lucien Nunes]

We can't even begin to guess what the current was. I disagree with the earlier post that it has anything to do with the circuit load current. It will be 230V divided by the resistance of the path it took through you, which depends mainly on the skin contact which can vary widely as you are aware. I'm not even sure what the path was, one contact was with a bayonet plunger but was the other one just the other plunger or were you holding something earthed? If between the plungers, it seems unlikely that any serious physiological damage would have occurred without obvious local effects near the contact points.

I remember being electrocuted twice

You can be shocked twice but only electrocuted once.

 

[gazdkw82]

Shocked twice on 2 seperate occasions

 

[telectrix]

Shocked twice on 2 seperate occasions

so was I. been married twice.

 

[Midwest]

OP don't worry about the ribbing, you did the right thing in going to A&E to get yourself checked out. I've heard of a few people having complications some time after receiving an electric shock. I'm led to believe the most dangerous of shocks are when the path of the shock is across the chest, arm to arm or arm down threw to a leg (i.e. threw the heart), which didn't appear to happen in your case. Again I'm led to believe, the more lethal shocks are when the person can't let go for some time (a few seconds, instead of parts of a second). The involuntary movement you felt was the electricity contracting your muscles, and you body saying let the **** go!

All electricians will have received a good few belts over the course of their careers (hopefully only enough of a belt, so they can continue with said career), normally through theirs or someone else's incompetence, I'm guilty of that.

As an apprentice, I thought the term 'electric shock' related to the electricity flow through the body, but 'quite literally' (best Paul Whitehouse voice), you're experience of the event comes as a complete shock!

 

[Spoon]

lets start a poll, how many times have you been shocked?

Every time a step out of the shower and look in the mirror....

 

[Taylortwocities]

When I left school, I joined the (then) GPO as a telephone apprentice. You start out doing 6 weeks up poles, 6 weeks down holes, etc.

Anyway. My first day on the job was with a crusty old phone fitter to a row of nearly finished new houses putting in their telephones. We go to the first house, he gets the electric kettle from the green Morris Minor GPO Telehones van. Looks around and says "I wonder if there's any juice". Clicks on a light switch and pops two fingers in the empty light pendant socket in the ceiling. He doesn't blink, and says "good, we can have some tea then".

What a fine example to an innocent 17-year old!

 

[Bobster]

When I left school, I joined the (then) GPO as a telephone apprentice. You start out doing 6 weeks up poles, 6 weeks down holes, etc.

Anyway. My first day on the job was with a crusty old phone fitter to a row of nearly finished new houses putting in their telephones. We go to the first house, he gets the electric kettle from the green Morris Minor GPO Telehones van. Looks around and says "I wonder if there's any juice". Clicks on a light switch and pops two fingers in the empty light pendant socket in the ceiling. He doesn't blink, and says "good, we can have some tea then".

What a fine example to an innocent 17-year old!

Not quite the same, but when I first started in the quarry there was an old chap. Hands like shovels and must have had 1/4" callused skin all over.

Used to wash his hands under the instant boiler we made brews from in our electricians workshop.

Never phased him, however when the green apprentice followed suit, there was a hell of a lot of whelping. Scalded himself pretty well.