"Just when I thought I knew everything."

personally, anytime a new discovery is made, if it's unused for a bit, it can fade. be forgotten. if rediscovered...the old espial becomes new again. waiting to be lost again.

a neverending treadmill of education.

anyway, she never said anything about not using the strip feature on a live wire. but maybe that's something no one ever forgets?

Do you have it plugged in? Is the on switch on?

Guaranteed its off or the current is a fraction of what it should be, horses jump out of their shoes when they hit a live wire.

A few months ago, a series of misshaps, including accidentally drilling into a live wire (who put that there?!), led to the death of my rotary hammer's suppression capacitor (see 7:03) -- the holy-fuck-what-just-blew-up kind of death that shorts out the entire circuit, dragging the fuse along into its early grave.

It was an absolute pain in the ass to find a replacement capacitor for a 21 year old Bosch GBH 2-24 DSE, but given how robust that machine has been over the last decades, it was worth it.

>> ^ForgedReality:

Surprising how it didn't trip any transformer fuses. Around here, whenever a squirrel tries to go from one live wire to another while touching both, he gets fried, and everyone on that circuit loses power until they can replace the fuse. It doesn't keep pumping power through it.


Probably 3 phase industrial lines.

Surprising how it didn't trip any transformer fuses. Around here, whenever a squirrel tries to go from one live wire to another while touching both, he gets fried, and everyone on that circuit loses power until they can replace the fuse. It doesn't keep pumping power through it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'electric, wire, repair, high, voltage, danger' to 'Hi voltage line, voltage, faraday cage, straight up, power line, live wire, electric' - edited by BoneRemake

I cant seem to face up to the facts
Im tense and nervous and i
Cant relax
I cant sleep cause my beds on fire
Dont touch me Im a real live wire

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You start a conversation you cant even finish it.
Youre talkin a lot, but youre not sayin anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?

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(* spoken interlude in french *)

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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....

Oh, well yeah. I hold no doubts that the woman was overreacting. The pain ceases INSTANTLY as soon as the charge stops. There's absolutely no reason to be screaming like that.

Charliem:
You're wrong. Voltage has nothing to do with plays only a small part in killing someone. Ever touch a live wire in your house? Hurts like a bitch, huh? That's only 120V (for America, 240 elsewhere). A taser on the other hand, sends out 50,000 volts. You could get hit with a million volts and not die if the amperage is not there. It also depends on what you're resistance is to electrical charge. Of course this lowers when you get wet. The Taser simply does not have the amperage necessary to kill you "instantly."

Furthermore, it does not have "two settings." The only thing the user can change is the duration of the shock. It does have two functions, however. Either use the cartridge and shoot from up to 15ft, or take off the cartridge and use it by direct contact.

Look, I'm not talking out of my ass here. I've been trained in riot control and the implementation of less-than-lethal and non-lethal weapons technologies.

If you want to know more, go the the manufacturer's site at http://www.taser.org/m18.html