i electricuted myself today :cries: i stuck a pair of sissors into my Server PSU, at the back where the fan is...i was trying to sort out the fan (making a loud noise at 9 in the morning! way to eairly...i got up (still drousy) nearest thing i chould find where a pair of sissors! poke poke... ZAP! ARRGH! i had a dead arm for about 2 hours and it felt really cold. Very weird sensation...but i dont suggest you people do it! Oh, the server is ok luckly!
ouch... maybe next time you'll try something non-conductive? That is if you can bring yourself to poke your PSU fan again! lol. I've been known to poke at my fans with a screwdriver, at least the end wasnt metal tho.
nah im fine...it took about 15 min i relise what could have happened. Woke me up quite quickly though!
something like this happened to me @ college before where we had to do a complete rebuild of the systems we were given for our marks in system instalaition & configuration, i did not notice but the psu i had har a rather large dint in it at the bottom so i built the machine up as you should but when i was going to connect everything to the back i noticed that i had not put all 4 screws in to hold the power supply (seeing one my friend did not secure properly in his home pc then crash through his entire machine destroying everything in its pat cand of makes you paranoid) at the time the power supply had the lead from the mains plugged in but not switched on so i hod the supply with one hadn as i use the other to screw it in & then my friend plugged her finished machine intot he socket next to mine & switched mine on by accident, it threw me 2 foot back & knocked me out as my head hit a shelf, i too had a dead arm for a while, shame its the arm that operates the acellerator on my bike so college had to phone my parents to pick me up, still get tinglng feelings sometimes (i reacon claims direct would like this story dont you, for not supplying us safe equiptment, that should ahve been checked, troo) moral of the story, always check that soem moron hasentdinted anything your using that has high voltages in it)
not only was it non-conductive, but they were scissors for crying out loud... My friend a while back when we did free-lance AV stuff used scissors to cut a live line and it sparked and welded the scissors together...
So does this mean you have super powers now? We can make a movie called "ModderMan"...a story about a lan cable swinging superhero who kisses girls upsidedown (you spiderman guys know EXACTLY what scene i'm talking about )
utp you know what was funny, using a ftp cable to power my second cpu , i pumped 220 v through the cable, i swear the cable just melted in 2
that happened to a mate of mine in college but he blew the power supply of a brand new celleron 800 (jsut a good thing he moved his hand away from the back of the grill jsut in time, he was flipping the littel switch to turn it on, it worked for a second & then blew up, putting a huge crack in the glass, god did i laugh while he stood there im mild shock & everyone else was there jaws hanging down, eyes bulged out!! i must have a twisted sense of humor to find that funny )
lol. nice going, genius. once i was trying to unplug my bass amp from a socket up in my bro's room cuz i was tuning it. but that plug was very stubborn, and i was trying to get it out with one hand. so when it was halfway out i accidentally touched both prongs, and boy, did i get a shock. i didn't fly back, didn't go numb, nothing, but my whole body vibrated uncontrollably. it sucked. heh. i'd had a 486 still in perfect working order up until two months ago. it was because i was curious as to what was inside, so i opened it up and took everything apart. now i use it for parts! (screws, IDE cables for experiments, old two-prong plugs get unsoldered and cut off for plugs for my electric planes)
lmao that brings back some painful memories...literally. as a wee child, i lived on a farm, and had many an argument with the electric fence. course that paved the way to the enjoyment from shock therapy later in life
Slightly OT. Not P.C.'s but hifi. Wife left the cinema amp's volume too high so it shut it's self off as a protection measure. Spoke to the supplier (Ritcher Sounds) who said that during the self test (approx 1 sec after turning the amp on) rapidly turn the volume dial down. Keep repeating untill it stays on. Well there is me turning it on, spinning the dial, turning it back on and spinning the dial etc. I must have gone to the safe point as it stayed on but being a repeatitive action I turned it off without noticing then on, spun the dial which must have looped the volume level from lowest to highest, there was a very loud noise, a pop, one of the speaker cones arked and then the speaker slowley started emitting smoke. After rushing the speaker to the bathroom and undoing the speakers and crossover I took the cones out to find the acustic wadding smodering in the back. Net dammage, blew the soundstages on the amp (Sherwood 925RDS) - £300, blew one of the speakers (Rogers LS55 sloorstanders) - £400 / pair). Cost me £150 in repairs all told and tough me the lesson:- if it is broke and attached to expensive things then get someone else to fix it, if it damages anything then it is at their expense. Cheers Rims
