John, thank you, one thing I appreciate and I'll bet many others do also, is the extra mile you go every time these kinds of questions come up, to help explain details, in laymans terms but with sufficient detail as well as "indemnifying" or "holding harmless" yourself,like you do with the legal questions. You provide good generic info, but advise to seek a qualified electrician, or attorney. Your posts are lengthy and thorough, I'm sure it takes up valuable time, I thought it prudent to just state, that I for one highly appreciate it, and if you recall the back up gen set discussion we had a few years back, one thing is for sure I have not forgot what was said about grounding, also helped a novice understand electrical theory a little better, between these and welding posts, I find them very informative.
Really wanted to ask you relative to this post, effects of current on the human body. I've always been told that amperage (current?) is what kills.
That understood, when I was a kid, I had a real bad experience with 220 VAC. Tractor related too, I was in our Ford Tractor dealership building and a mechanic needed a welding lense, I said I'll get one, (helpful kid) was on a shelf on a steel column, below it was a hardwired, (not low control voltage) thermostat to bar joist hung unit heaters. Some jerk left the cover off, and my right wrist, (underside) contacted 3 bare copper wire splices, burned 3 small holes, and I was locked to the column helpless, which seemed like an eternity, 2 men pulled me off, just seemed to take forever, had I been in there alone, I'd have fried, I don't recall being able to yell, it just seemed like I was burning and locked to that column forever, pulsing and you know how weird electrical current feels if you ever had the doctor use that device on your back.
Given the above, 220 VAC, steel column, not sure if both arms were contacting, still have the scars on my right, how the heck did I survive this ordeal, they got nailed taking me off. I never saw a doctor, went to ER, parents were real jerks about things like this, thats what you get for doing what you did, (helping someone). I think someone was watching over me, just seems like a person should not be able to survive this, given the above, them old unit heaters had to draw some amperage, good thing they were not on, likely I would not be here today writing this.
Whats your opinion on something like that, I tell people thats the reason "I am the way I am" LOL !!!!!
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