OUCH! Apparantly, you should go and see your doctor for a quick check, even if your arm is ok now. Better to be safe than sorry.
haha, 8 things have hapened to me. 1. I wired up an AT power supply switch wrong. Direct short circuit of the mains. BANG! Sparks flying everywhere. No fuses in this house. Plus, I was doing this on my friends bed. Blew a hole right through it! 2. When I was about 8, I was installing Windows95 on a 386 w/ 4mb RAM!!!!!!!!!!! us kids do stupid things lol. After about 8 hours, I noticed smoke coming out of the floppy drive. Poor overworked thing... It was the floppy version by the way. 3. My 150w testbench power supply shocked me when I was installing 30pin ram in a computer. Incorrect mains wiring on extension cord. Not only that, but that same power supply (5kg) fell on mum's head! 4. Whole room filled with smoke while leaving XT on in PC room. Flames too! Scary stuff... 5. Blew up soldering iron at school because of not using the stand. Everyone the stand is worth the money! HUGE Bang! 6. Plugged in USB cable wrong, smoke emitted. Mobo fine tho 7. Sparked my mobo while taking out RAM. Not enough standoffs (5vsb - gnd) 8. Sparked a power cable, this was weird. My finger went blue for a whole week. it was only 12v. didn' hurt tho. Well I'll think of more. I'm only 13 btw... I started PCs when I was 7.
I was using an old Apple Lisa at school for programming. After crashing for what seemed like the 1000th time that year, I got ****ed off and turned the power switch in t h e back off and on really quickly for a few seconds. Somehow the monitor never flickered. Either way, I stopped and it turned off. I turned it back on and I see blue smoke coming out of the back. Fried the logic board controller. Pretty funny though, even got the teacher laughing.
At my work we do repairs for Sable POS terminals (used in BigBoy and Lone Star restaurants as well as IHOPs). Well, many of them come back with broken internal printers or toasted motherboards. The fun part about working on these is that the powersupply is open inside the case. Its not covered like the usual computer powersupply. Me being an idiot, I left the terminal connected to the wall outlet. Making sure the power switch was off, I proceeded to mess with the inards of the terminal. *Bzzzt**Bzzzt* I shocks myself reaching near the powersupply. You'd think I learned my lesson. Unfortunately it happened a couple more times on various other days. My co-workers got several laughs from it too. Thankfully I must have touched the 5V and not the 24V roaming through the system. Either that or the 24v doesn't have high amps. Of course i'm also lucky i left the terminal off and didn't touch the lovely inverter for the CCFL that sits right next to the powersupply.
I've zapped myself a couple of times with mains and been left with a locked jaw, but nothing was as funny as a story my brother loves to tell.... He went fishing with his best m8 James and James' little brother David. My Bro and David went wading out a ways by a cow pasture, but got skunked and got out of the water...David threw his wet pants over a fence to dry...went to straighten them out, yelled a bit and jumped back. The fence was electric. They just laughed a bit and left the pants there. Crossed over to the other side of the road where James was, but James wasn't catching anything. He says, "I think I'm gonna cross that fence I saw back there and see if there's anything in the backwater." David immediately warns him that the fence is electric, but James yells at him to shut up, saying he's sick of David's lying and is just trying to rob him of catching fish (!!!) They can't convince him, so they see him disappear over the road and just wait. A few seconds later they hear this huge RROOOOOAAAARRRR they said you could hear for miles. James came limping back over the road, silently got his gear, glared at everyone and drove away. We haven't laughed so hard since, and James is still sore about it even though it happened a couple years ago. Not computer related I know but still funny as hell.
Large Neon sign transformer = 30,000volts Large Neon sign transformer + Finger = PAIN I did that once while trying to build a tesla coil. :cries:
argh, im unsucribing from this thread. stop bringing it back to life! and welcome to the boards "Annihilator2". .icecube
im ok with power supplies, i have changed fans in em about 10 times now at work and havent hurt myself :/ tho i did manage to catch my fingeron one of the corners and started bleeding all over it before i noticed what id done . But a few weeks ago went out to a customer, and they said it doesnt turn on, so i plugged in a power cord and BANG a huge great fricken white spark about 15 cm and the size of the fan hole shot out the back as i plugged it in scared the living daylights out of me, phoned work as asked if i could claim for underwear on expenses lol. Apart from that i once electrocuted myself when i was living in switzerland, when i was like 7 and the plug was quite high up i went to plug it in and finger slipped onto top pin as i plugged it in, Buzzzzzz shook the hell out of me, but i was on rubber underlayed floor apparently so i was ok, but my arm went dead for a bit too.
Not exactly computer related, but funny nonetheless. This summer I've been working for our local energy cooperative. Every year they have this thing called "Members Appreciation Day" All the customers can come in and see how things work, look at our products, and so on. I was in charge of the safety display on this particular day. This safety display is actually a pretty cool thing. It's basically a miniature street block. There is overhead wiring, some farm equipment, trees, and some G.I. Joes wrapped in copper wire. You can plug the thing into the wall and then turn it on and off with a pedal on the floor. I'd been running the thing for about 3 hours when this little kid came up and wanted to see how the thing worked. So I stuck one of the G.I. Joes in the powerlines and pressed the pedal with my foot. For whatever reason the little guy didn't spark or anything. I let off the pedal and moved to adjust the guy, I stupidly put both hands on the wire and got shocked like crazy. My arms swung backwards and would have knocked the little kid over had he been any taller. It turns out that the power cord had fallen underneath the pedal keeping it depressed even without my foot The little kid was just staring up at me, eyes really wide.. I just looked at him and said "That's why you don't play with power lines"
