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savage170
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I worked with a equipment service fellow
He was a large fellow had worked out most of his life
On a previous job he had a electrical panel blow up while standing in front of it his chest and arms were noting but scars some of his face also
He got burned bad spent a long time in a hospital skin graphs . then recovery and reabilation
Said it was unbearable the pain some days
The doctors told him his muscle mass saved his life
Great guy and still worked out but his physical aperance was obvious what he endured
I see the problem. He was standing too close. In 40 rears of working with electricity, I only has my hands scorched a couple of times.
I worked with one old fella that had his hand burned bad by 2300 volts a.c.
Where I worked, a Forman had been killed by walking into a live 6900 volt cubicle.
Looks like he had one of those "ghost" guns in his hands too! 😁
Power keeps going out recently, when it rain on on side of the house.
Seems the 18' x24' shed is powered by a outlet in the basement (with an extension cord). Think after 18 years here i would seen this, NO behind a built in bookcase
Unplugging and getting professional over next week to put in a 20 amp in the breaker box.
I am not a licensed electrician but I have wired up 4 new houses by myself. I love to do wiring.
Of course I have never handled anything more than 220.
That high-octane electricity looks like some dangerous stuff.
Back in the 90’s in Kazakhstan, I was a night toolpusher, we were drilling a well in the Steppes, not to far West of the Aral Sea. And as a note, we we’re almost due West of Baikonur(Russia’s Cape Canaveral)
We had three 1200 Kw gensets powering our 4 bay SCR house to distribute power for the drilling rig.
While tripping pipe, we had a blackout. I was out doing a routine walk around at the time, so me and my trusty flashlight went into the SCR house to investigate.
All three generators were still running, but kicked off line. I did the normal checks and all gauges and indicators seemed good.
I charged the breaker for #1 Gen and engaged the breaker to get lighting back on.
When I did, I found my self in the middle of an electrical explosion, huge blue blinding light, tremendous thunderclap of sound and then darkness. I thought I was Slim Pickens at the end of the bomb drop in Dr. Strangelove
I did not move a muscle for fear of touching something electrified.
After a short time, the driller and crew arrived, they had been scrambling to get to the SCR house to assist when things went BOOM.
The West Texas driller shouted at me, “Dave, are ya owl rat, you look blacker than a xxxxxx”. I opened my clinched eyes and looked, my hands and clothes were soot black, didn’t get to see my face for an hour or so, but it was also.
My rig electrician Jim was summoned and began to attempt to diagnose the problem.
After an hour or so he found. A squirrel cage ventilation fan with 24/30 1”x 14” blades that provided cooling for a SCR bay had come apart and as one the first blades hit the buss bar it had tripped everything. The remaining blades had fallen on the now cold buss bar and when I energized it with 1200Kw they were atomized, thus the black on me and entire inside of SCR house.
Ol Jim the electrician had the squirrel cage fan replaced in short order, things checked and we were back in operation in a couple hours. He told me he was glad I had tripped the breaker and not him, as he would have done the same and would have ended up the same.
He did have to spend the next two days and close to 55 gallons of CRC Lectra Clean getting that SCR and the bays cleaned up.
That’s my only experience with high voltage, except a little encounter with lightning on a drilling rig, but that’s another funny story for another day.
Mule
Wow Mule glad you made it through that could have been worse though