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ark_ader:
I remember working on a electronic sign controller (one of my more interesting jobs) and my trainee was working with me. I opened the case to swap out some dodgy proms so I got the trainee (yep I know) to power down the unit (240V) after getting the all clear I took off the top panel, swapped out the proms and was about to screw the lid down when my screw driver touched the PSU and I got a full 240V burst. This threw my arm up and the screwdriver was embedded in the wall behind me. Obviously my arm was no good for a few days after.
The trainee powered the box instead of powering it down by flicking the wrong switch, but I didn't blame him as the power switch light had broke on the front of the console, even though the lights on the board was not on. I concluded that once the lid was screwed on it completed the circuit and powered the board. Had the trainee decided to get behind me to over see the work, he would be dead, so there was some comfort. Now I triple test all my gear to make sure it is not powered on. It hurt really bad after the shock, though I have had a dose of 110V when I had the bright idea when I was a kid to get worms out of the ground using the house current and two metal poles. I fished a lot and I thought it would be a cool idea to see the worms vacate the ground like little springs. :lol What I didn't know was it cooked the worms below...oops.
Kids do get up to all kinds of stupid things...
shmokes:
This doesn't extend into the realm of pet peeves for me, maybe cos I get such a kick out of it. But "electrocuted" means shocked to death. Electrocute is to electricity what drown is to water.
Ond:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 02, 2013, 09:00:10 pm ---This doesn't extend into the realm of pet peeves for me, maybe cos I get such a kick out of it. But "electrocuted" means shocked to death. Electrocute is to electricity what drown is to water.
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Electrocute/Electrocuted can mean either injure or kill with electricity, the word Electrocution means kill with electricity. Would you have been satisfied with "received a bad electrical shock" instead? What is it you get a kick out of, grammatical pedantry?
The fact that I'm even bothering responding to pompous comments like this is a sure sign I've spent enough time on these boards for now. Hasta la Vista babies!
shmokes:
Not really. It means killed. And don't get your panties in a bunch. I get that you're joyless, but I suspect that you can see how one might find humor in a living person mistakenly saying that he was previously killed. It's funny. Lighten up.
lilshawn:
first computer was an Apple IIe clone it was "Appco" branded. :lol learned lots about programming with that puppy. even had the 80 column card for increased text reading capacity.
Graduated from that to a toshiba t1100 laptop 4mhz with 640k memory and dual 720k 3 1/4 inch drives. CGA graphics on a monochrome widescreen LCD. Wordperfect 4.2.
Needed more powah. bought a Toshiba t1200 laptop. 1mb ram and a 20 mb HD (and single 720k drive) turbo speed 9mhz 8086 processor. really got me into videogaming with this machine with it's faster processor. still CGA 4 color graphics though. space quest 3 with magenta,cyan,black,and white FTW!
went to a Ratshack Tandy 4000 computer. 16mhz 386 prosessor upgraded to 4mb ram 80mb HD with VGA. OMG VGA640BY480WITH256COLORS!!!!! and windows 3.11
upgrade to Compaq 486dx-100mhz. 16mb ram, nothing special. Flipped that computer for a $200 profit 2 months later. my 15 year old self was baaaaad ass.
next was a pentium 133mhz. pentiums had just dropped in price. sold off the 486 for a profit and bought the pentium for nearly the same price. 20gb hd and high speed 56k modem. BBS here I come!
Overclocked my first computer with a Slot 1 Pentium II 400mhz, (to 440mhz) 64mb ram 20gb hd. Sold that computer to help finance my next computer (still overclocked) :lol.
stepped away from intel and bought an AMD Athlon 1.2 ghz, 80gb HD, 512mb ram, onboard graphics. This is where I realized onboard graphics really sap your computers processing power. got rid of that computer right quick. Even broke even on it.
went back to intel (after the AMD left a bad taste in my mouth.) spent the extra money to go to a 3ghz P4 with a gig of ram. still wasn't particularly impressed with the performance. At this time, i was still using on board graphics. a friend of mine mentioned that this was due to the on board graphics. Sold that computer to the company I worked for at the time. They probably still use it.
Managed to get my hands on an Athlon 64 2ghz computer used. (over clocked to 2.2ghz) (my first used computer) dual 120gb SATA drives... 2 gig ram. Radion 9550 graphics. gamed a ton on that system. upgraded the processor to 3ghz still have it down in my basement today. Albeit in parts, but still working.
bought all new hardware and going a little crazy this time around. Upgrading in stages until i'm satisfied with the final product. Started off with a 3.2ghz dual core athlon X2 and Asus mobo, 4gb ram. nvidia 9500gt video. Upgraded to the FX4100 3.6 ghz 4 core processor with Corsair H60 Liquid cooling...and recently to the FX8150 4ghz 8 core, with (in the works) custom liquid cooling. was overclocking the 8 core to 4.4ghz no problems, but the H60 can't handle the heat output that great at 100% loads even modded with an external reservoir to increase the fluid volume. So, I'm building a custom cooling solution with a triple 120mm fans on Koolance radiator. I'll be chopping the giant hole in the top plate of my case today. :cheers:
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