Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01623
To: "James Wilson" jameswilson@globalserve.net,
From: "The Mesiti Family" mesiti@pbq.com.au
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:17:38 +1100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: warning!
Tv's are different. MUCH higher voltages and slightly higher amps.
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| From: James Wilson
| To: Richard Piotter
| Cc: beam
| Subject: Re: warning!
| Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 11:46 AM
|
| The relative level of perceived danger is no reason to be careless near a
stored
| energy source. A charged cap, acid, alkaline or many other common
objects can have
| a vast store of potential energy. The way of the world, some may call it
entropy,
| is for every thing to be in its lowest stored energy state. Thus we have
found
| many ways of utilizing this in capacitors batteries etc. The one major
thing to
| keep in mind is that even though the current may be low and the statement
that
| voltage alone will not kill you is true, the over all well of energy that
is stored
| can cause you great harm. A friend of mine while quoting volts can't
hurt you was
| mucking around in a rather old tv. The caps that were attached to the
fly back
| transformer looked old and dead until he accidentally brushed his arm
past them.
| He had a hole burned through his forearm 1/2" in diameter. I can still
smell the
| flesh burning and hear his screams.
| Beam robots are fun and a rather safe hobby, however, one must not take a
caviler
| approach to safety.
|
| James
|
| Richard Piotter wrote:
|
| > Camera flashes will give you a nice little jolt, but it won't seriously
| > harm you. I rigged one up as an electrical muscle toner, but never used
| > it. I eventualy just used it to shock myself and others. It has nearly
| > no real current behind the 280-360 volts. I know. I've played with them
| > many a time. I still don't recomend "playing" with them, but I wouldn't
| > worry for my life around one.
| >
| > Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
| > >
| > > Dont screw around with those camera flash caps. I had to discharge
one and it
| > > put out a good ZAP!!! And i thought it was done so i started to play
with the
| > > rest of it then ZAP!!!! I got this one. IT STINGS. I guess I'm luck i
didnt
| > > lose a body part or anything. So be careful if you play with these.
| > >
| > > Steve
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