On 19 Mar 00 at 17:25, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>>Dale .....I don't know about Roger, but they did me...and it works...
>>...the other Senior Technician at a site in the Philippines got across
>>21Kv when the shorting bar on a big transmitter's capacitors failed to
>>drop....until after he had religiously grounded everything in the box.. so,
>>he grabbed the rectifier plate cap bus to pull it off one of the rectifier
>>tubes, the shorting bar dropped, the transmitter briefly recycled, and Don
>>got the whole load right down through his body.... ..... .....but, happy
>>ending (???)...he only lost his right index finger and his right big
>>toe....he had had his left hand firmly stuck in his back
>>pocket.....Hadiloski was Navy trained (I was Air Force trained) so I will
>>bet Roger learned the same thing....
That hurts just to think about it. He was very lucky. I have never
personally taken a high voltage/high current electrical charge, but I
work in a business that uses helium-neon lasers and they require
between 5k to 10k volts to start and run (more to start). The little
power supplies we use have a 12 volt input and are limited to a few
milliamps, but they can still zap you good enough that you don't
forget for the rest of the day, as well as occasionally getting a
whiff of the smell of your burned skin where the arc got you.
Fortunately our industry is moving to solid state laser diodes which
are low voltage devices and it is a much less frequent occurence.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.
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