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shardian:
More good advice:

When messing with high voltages, ALWAYS keep one hand in your pocket. For the same reason Chad mentioned, if you become part of a circuit with two hands, the quickest way for the juice is from fingertip to fingertip. Guess what lies in between your arms? Yep, your heart. When you use one hand, you just creat a low resistance ground.

Thenasty:
just for fun.....

What if we use the TOES to TOES ? Whats lies between the TOES  :laugh2:

fried motzerella balls  ;D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on November 22, 2006, 12:44:14 pm ---More good advice:

When messing with high voltages, ALWAYS keep one hand in your pocket. For the same reason Chad mentioned, if you become part of a circuit with two hands, the quickest way for the juice is from fingertip to fingertip. Guess what lies in between your arms? Yep, your heart. When you use one hand, you just creat a low resistance ground.

--- End quote ---


I wonder how much different it really makes which hand you get zapped with.  Your heart is offcenter left, so theoretically it would be better to keep your left hand in your pocket.  Probably not, though.

WaRpEd:
Chad
If you want to try that left hand vs right I'll send you a nice card at the hospital IF you survive.
The man I worked for at a local arcade when I was in my late teens Had never been Bit as He put.
Fortunatley for him I had a CPR course I had just taken to restart his heart while his wife called the EMT's. ( He survived)
I can't state STRONGLY enough how dangerous monitors can be if your careless or think that can't happen to me.
BE CAREFUL!

ChadTower:

Well, I'm not dumb enough to TRY it.  I've never been bitten and don't plan on it.  I discharge any monitor I work on, stand on wood while tweaking them with one hand on the MDF/plywood cab side.  Built my own discharging tool, nearly memorized the HV circuit before I had ever touched a chassis.  I overkill my preparation for stuff.

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