WUNderfest

me too - used to do a lot of mucking about with the electricity as a
teenager, in the after school "Physics Club"

Loads of soldering iron burns too, sort of connectedly.

And though of course not so many amps, but what fun we'd have standing
on a rubber mat, hands on the top of a Van Der Graff generator and
then daring earthed people to touch us.

Great days.

 

Helps to stop this kind of thing happening. ;-)

http://www.budoseek.net/vbulletin/s...o-Self-Test-your-new-Tazer&p=61970&viewfull=1

(very old I know).

Tim

 

In fact ...

To bring two threads together

One of the first mains shocks I had was just behind that wall in
Kimbolton that Pip keeps on rabbiting on about

knocked me across the room it did

and I got no sympathy

 

Yebbut you were behind a ruddy great wall: they wouldn't have seen
you!