And someone was scared of a 24 volt capacitor ...

It was totally obvious that someone was going to get voltage. Continuing to
watch was an informed choice for anyone with a clue. My reaction to this
video was to ruminate on how rapid, and how casually approached, was the
transition between life and death, and also to note how the crowds ran away
after it happened. It's a very human reaction, but it's also a very animal
reaction.

Read what I said up there about rapid transitions between life and death,
and ruminate upon how that might apply to you.

 

I remember being subjected to Viet Nam medical films which were fairly
graphic too.

 

I recall that one, although not any names just the impaled hand.

And that one.

Me as well, the other that sticks is the vaporising busbar in a power
cabinet burning the guys eyes out. AIUI all of them were based on
actual incidents as well.

 

Did you get the slightly funny (in it's non PCness now days if nothing
else) but equally gory consequences film.

Scene: A raised steel mesh gangway across a machine shop floor. *Very*
tasty office type girl leaves office at one end and walks to the other
(mini skirt, legs right up to her arse etc). 'Blokes' on the shop
floor looking up get distracted one by one and the chaos and resultant
gore ensues. The ones I remember was long haired guy gets his hair
caught up in a lathe chuck and fork lift driver pins someone to the
wall though with a fork their chest. ;-(

All the way though this when most of us trainees were watching said
though our fingers, one 'lad' was giving it large, going on about the
gore and blood, laughing etc. Then we got to the No-Smoking film and
the scene starts with a scalpel cutting someone down the middle and
the surgeon pulling out a lung to look at. We then hear a crash and
loud boy has passed out on the floor (where we left him, it was
quieter that way). ;-)

The line that still confuses me to this day was the surgeon, holding
up two different looking lungs (one pink and one tar coloured) saying
"This is the damaged lung from a smoker and this is the healthy lung
from a non smoker ..." ?

I've never smoked either. ;-)

T i m

 

Hmm, though it was pretty obvious what was going to happen, I still
found it a bit shocking (hah!)

Oddly I was also fascinated in a macabre way: I mean, his body is a
conductor composed mostly of water, but his clothes were smouldering
and his hair seemed to be on fire: so does at least some of the
current flow outside the body? One might expect heat sufficient to set
external flammables alight would also cause the water to flash to
steam big time.

 

The latest one to hit power stations across the country is a warning
about using your mobile when it's plugged into a mains charger.
Apparently it's possible (in vary rare circumstances) to pile 240v
though your lughole which has a rather nasty effect on your ability to
pump blood around your body.

I've seen the pictures so it's probably true but it won't stop me
chatting on the phone when it's charging.

 

Capaci*ance* is measured in Farads.

Capacitors are specified in Farads and Volts IIRC.

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I've had that in the form of a circular e-mails and like you I
wouldn't bother worrying about it.

Yes, I guess there is more of a chance of 240V getting through the
charger and into the phone *if* you use it whilst it's plugged in but
there's probably just as much of a chance of getting the same shock
off it as you unplug it from being charged.

Or the battery could explode in yer ear or trouser pocket. ;-(

T i m

 

Nothing a decent fish slice wouldn't shift.

 

I'm sure I read somewhere that Karcher used the cleaning up in a
promotional video.

 

A Farad being rather a lot.

and the maximum voltage the

Ahh, don't recall that from my mispent youth.

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Aren't capacitors measured in farads not volts?[/QUOTE]


Both parameters are important

they have a maximum rated voltage

 

Catman wibbled...

Don't forget the max rated temperature and polarity.

 

Oh yes. Happy memories.

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Is there any more bizarrely scaled unit than the farad? ISTR in school
calculating that the capacitance of the earth is within an order of
magnitude of one farad[1].

[1] I've no idea now how I might have done that, and it's one of the many
things that Wolfram Alphea ought to be able to do and can't, so I welcome
input from SWK.

 

Thank you. The things I could do before wasting all those neurons.... (I'm
assuming my current memory is at fault, rather than my earlier ability -
since I remembered to try WA and forgot to try Google that seems a
reasonable assumption).

 

That's not really the 'capacitance of the Earth' though, is it? In
fact, is it valid to talk about capacitance of only one plate of a
capacitor? It's a long time since I was at school.

 

A few years ago, I did some work where several banks of 20kV
capacitors were used. I had the dubious pleasure of having to be the
person removing the earthing strap as I left and being the person
first back on the scene with a massive big earthing rod which weighed
a ton, to earth them before putting the earthing strap back on. You
really didn't want to forget yourself and put one hand beyond the
ceramic insulators to steady the rod.

I was very relieved when that particular job was over.

 

I recal SIDE.
Oh, the fun of watching those PIFs.

 

That video (the beheading one) was the only one I've ever seen where I
was a bit quiet afterwards, and thought "I kinda wish I hadn't seen
that".

The video was alright but the audio track was genuinely horrible.