Best Electrostatic Discharge Safety Video EVER

sfsuphysics said:
Yeah pretty sure that's fake and staged otherwise why would the LED blink if the capacitor wasn't charging and discharging constantly considering it was "hooked up wrong"
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Often times it will work properly, for a little while until it explodes. It largely depends on a number of factors.

It reminds me of the first day of electronics class in high school. The teacher had a TV in a field that had backwards capacitors installed, and he said "Never give power to any circuit you make in this class until I've had a look at it. Since I know some of you aren't listening, go to the other side of the field and watch this. The set worked for around a minute until the capacitors popped.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
Electricity will find the easiest path. If he had grounded his other hand, it may still only travel along the skin down the arm, across the chest, then along the other arm.
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And since skin is a fairly horrible conductor that path most likely would be through his blood stream, through his heart, and out through the other hand :D
 
" ....and remember kids, never, ever be a complete dumbass on recorded video....":eek:

This made me spit my milk......:D
 
old Electrician I used to know said most people that start out working in the field are very cautious the first few years, then start getting overconfident. about that time most usually have some sort of incident that reminds them how dangerous electricity can be, that usually keeps them careful the rest of their lives if they survive it...

Damn if it didn't happen to me, Plant I worked at had a 3 phase motor fail on a very important machine that shut most of the plant down, and had everyone in a panic to get it swapped out, I asked the plant manager if the circuit was locked out, he held up the tag and said "yes", I grabbed the wire nuts for two of the phases and pulled them off, causing a hella shock to go through my chest as my finger made contact with the bare wires at the same time. the shock caused my legs to spasm, throwing me across the platform to hit the handrail ten feet away, where I narrowly missed going over it to the plant floor 20 feet below. Felt like a steel band around my chest, only thought I can remember is "Shit, I just killed myself".

Turns out the Awesome plant manager locked the motor out, but failed to lock out the soft start system that actually controlled the motor, and me being an overconfident kid, didn't stick my meter on the conductors to check. Last time I ever made a mistake like that. pain IS an awesome teacher.
 
Haha. Some funny stuff. If nothing else, at least he is serving as an example to others.
 
always fun to see someone else get hurt! this guy is doing mankind a huge favor
 
I hate getting shocked.

I think the hardest I've ever been hit was grabbing a spark plug wire on a running car. That was not a fun feeling.
 
I put a taser to a an old Pentium 75MHz back in the day, in mobo, Windows loaded: Zap, it re-booted and it worked fine afterwards. Must have had a few too many that night too because it was my working computer at the time. Eeek! Not my smartest decision.
 
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