Re: electrical deaths

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:33:59 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote:

I have a similar story, from a colleague who had worked at one of the
big accelerators in the US Argonne National Lab in the 1960s.  He worked
in the powerhouse that provided 20,000 amps at 10 volts DC to the
accelerator field coils (which were water-cooled copper then), delivered
over a par of large copper bus-bars side by side.  One day,
he happened to drop a big steel wrench across the buss bars. The wrench
evaporated with a bang, and the power system carried on. Startled but
unhurt, he called the accelerator control room and asked - they looked
and saw no indication of that momentary short.
 
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This crazy English guy shorts out 50,000 Amps for a bit of fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGhhdPgXG8&t=7s