Re: electrical deaths

On 11/28/2024 12:17 PM, David Lesher wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> writes:
 

At $WORK, the more common thing was to shed all jewelry as a wedding band
across a 100A supply will turn neatly cauterize the severed finger!
Of course, spouses tend to have raised eyebrows when you return home
without your wedding band in its rightful place (or, worse:  with a
flesh-colored bandage wrapped around it!)

 A mere 100A?

That's what the CPU "chip" consumed (at -5.2VDC).  The memory panels
(literally *doors* packed with DIPs) drew considerably more -- but,
at three different supply voltages.

A telco Central Office battery plant will supply
thousands through a short. See the screwdriver turn orange,

I believe automotive batteries are effectively fused at 2000A,
internally.  In either case, all these examples are ALREADY
driving "shorts" so see any other "short" as just more of the same...

All tools were taped up in case they were dropped across
the terminals.  I recall when TI first made plastic LED
watches. Power craft guys LOVED them because with plastic bands,
they were safe to wear.

Never wore a watch.  But, wedding band, belt buckle, wire
eyeglass frames and rivets/buttons on jeans.
You can remove a wedding band (though the old-timers had worn
them so long they were NOT removable), your eyeglasses, and
belt.  Had to learn to wear "dress slacks", though, to be
rid of the metal adornments on jeans!