11-10-2012, 06:36 PM
Not to sure about that...depends how you catch it and what your skin resistance is, the skin on my hands is like leather and then some due to the kind of things I have to do with my hands, I expect if it were measured it would be several if not tens of megohms, I have regularly inadvertantly made a path from HT to deck and felt nothing.
On the otherhand I remember when colour TV first came out, you remember the big dual standard coffins,
setting up the purity etc without a suitable mirror when on field call usually ended up fiddling blind, being aware of the potential shock hazzards of this practice in a customers house in the corner of their living room with a coal fire blazing away 'cos they wanted to wash the dishes tended to make one more nervouse and sweaty, being aware of this and the fact the my skin resistance was now heading south due to the threat of such a shock seemed to compound the effect and sweated even more and also because we had 12 more call outs to do before the days end and therefore under pressure, all I can say is that a belt under those circumstances was certainly a sobering experience.
We got a call from a customer once who had an engineer sent out to her to fix the telly she said you had better send another one the one you sent isn't very well, turned out to be live chassis, earthed outer braiding on aerial and a case of oversight, we went out and he certainly must have caught the shock bad, his face looked like he needed a blood transfusion..
Lawrence.
On the otherhand I remember when colour TV first came out, you remember the big dual standard coffins,
setting up the purity etc without a suitable mirror when on field call usually ended up fiddling blind, being aware of the potential shock hazzards of this practice in a customers house in the corner of their living room with a coal fire blazing away 'cos they wanted to wash the dishes tended to make one more nervouse and sweaty, being aware of this and the fact the my skin resistance was now heading south due to the threat of such a shock seemed to compound the effect and sweated even more and also because we had 12 more call outs to do before the days end and therefore under pressure, all I can say is that a belt under those circumstances was certainly a sobering experience.
We got a call from a customer once who had an engineer sent out to her to fix the telly she said you had better send another one the one you sent isn't very well, turned out to be live chassis, earthed outer braiding on aerial and a case of oversight, we went out and he certainly must have caught the shock bad, his face looked like he needed a blood transfusion..
Lawrence.
