atom1025
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So my wife uses old circuit boards for her art projects. I always take old electronics apart and scavange cool stuff.
So there was a 5yr old camera I started taking apart. I took the batteries out and started to disassemble. Some of you allready know what happened next.
Well to my surprise I learned that camera flashes use 330v capacitors that like to dump their current into unsuspecting victims.
I've been hit by 120, 220, then the hardest before today was when I grabbed a distributer cap and got hammered hard. That one felt like I got hit by a hammer 10x in a split second.
None of those hit as hard as this. Completed the circuit from the left hand to the right. I could visualize the ring of electricity that seemed to flow up my left arm across my chest and out my right. My brain saw only white for split second, my brain did something weird that's hard to put into words but it felt like a system reset. I prolly sat blankly for 3-5 seconds before I started yelling and jumping around the house. I was checking my pulse cause it felt like I difibulated myself.
May have killed a chitload of brain cells but everything seems back to normal. What blew my mind was that it came so unexpected. I would of never guessed a divice that runs of 4aa batteries could potentially kill. Glad it was me and not the wife who took the hit.
So I learned a valuable lesson today.
Adam
So there was a 5yr old camera I started taking apart. I took the batteries out and started to disassemble. Some of you allready know what happened next.
Well to my surprise I learned that camera flashes use 330v capacitors that like to dump their current into unsuspecting victims.
I've been hit by 120, 220, then the hardest before today was when I grabbed a distributer cap and got hammered hard. That one felt like I got hit by a hammer 10x in a split second.
None of those hit as hard as this. Completed the circuit from the left hand to the right. I could visualize the ring of electricity that seemed to flow up my left arm across my chest and out my right. My brain saw only white for split second, my brain did something weird that's hard to put into words but it felt like a system reset. I prolly sat blankly for 3-5 seconds before I started yelling and jumping around the house. I was checking my pulse cause it felt like I difibulated myself.
May have killed a chitload of brain cells but everything seems back to normal. What blew my mind was that it came so unexpected. I would of never guessed a divice that runs of 4aa batteries could potentially kill. Glad it was me and not the wife who took the hit.
So I learned a valuable lesson today.
Adam
.. it hurt.
