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From: Sweetwater Texas
My butt has been knocked pretty hard by a Mig, it was really badly grounded metal I was holding for a friend, and then next thing my arms and shoulder just tensed up really quick, not as bad a spark plug, but close
I can't even count how many times I've been hit with an AC and DC crackerbox, hot wire fences (with boots off, don't ask) spark plugs, and once my friends homemade taser out of a disposable camera (again don't ask)
I can't even count how many times I've been hit with an AC and DC crackerbox, hot wire fences (with boots off, don't ask) spark plugs, and once my friends homemade taser out of a disposable camera (again don't ask)
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From: Maine (NorCal Native)
If you haven't been hit by a welder, you haven't been around one much!
I can't count the times I have been hit, laying/sitting under a bucket replacing or hard facing a cutting edge in the rain!
-Enjoy
fh : )_~
I can't count the times I have been hit, laying/sitting under a bucket replacing or hard facing a cutting edge in the rain!
-Enjoy
fh : )_~
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From: Faibanks Ak.
My butt has been knocked pretty hard by a Mig, it was really badly grounded metal I was holding for a friend, and then next thing my arms and shoulder just tensed up really quick, not as bad a spark plug, but close
I can't even count how many times I've been hit with an AC and DC crackerbox, hot wire fences (with boots off, don't ask) spark plugs, and once my friends homemade taser out of a disposable camera (again don't ask)
I can't even count how many times I've been hit with an AC and DC crackerbox, hot wire fences (with boots off, don't ask) spark plugs, and once my friends homemade taser out of a disposable camera (again don't ask)
We used to hook up model T coils to the body with a switch so we could turn it on you should hane seen my wife one time when she was standing in about 2 inches of water and tried to get in the car.
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From: Sweetwater Texas
Yupp been there and done that. I've been hit on purpose, and then there was the once we were loading semi's at the end of the year, and they brought their own hotshots on steroids and they let me use one, and I hit a stubborn steer, and he kicked it, and flew back and got me in the thigh. I peed myself.
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From: Las vegas
Well I did some reading up on how alternators work and figured out why the diode trio needs to be removed, it suplies field curent once the engine is running so if you full field it with the diode trio still atached theoretically it would then be fielded by the possible 200V the alt could produce with the 12v field curent so it would continualy exponantialy increase the out put voltage infinatley, well the alternator would melt down fairly quickly.
I also may change my plan of attack I'm thinking of using an seperate external rectifyer when the alternator is in welder mode, I might buy a pre made one but am having trouble finding one that meets my requirements, to find one that will stand up to my wopping 66 amps it will hold 600v wich drives the price up. Or I may just make one of my own design. But the rectifyer in my alternator should hold up as long as it dosen't use avalanche diodes. But if I use a external unit for welding i wont have to worry about damaging the one for charging.
I also may change my plan of attack I'm thinking of using an seperate external rectifyer when the alternator is in welder mode, I might buy a pre made one but am having trouble finding one that meets my requirements, to find one that will stand up to my wopping 66 amps it will hold 600v wich drives the price up. Or I may just make one of my own design. But the rectifyer in my alternator should hold up as long as it dosen't use avalanche diodes. But if I use a external unit for welding i wont have to worry about damaging the one for charging.
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From: Maysville, Kentucky
I've been hit a few time with 120v it doesn't feel good. The hot coil on my 5hp briggs hurts a whole lot worse.
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From: Las vegas
The highest voltage I've been hit with was about 60,000V from an E-coil type ignition coil. its wired having your arm move when you aren't ontrolling it. In highschol I saw a kid check for spark by pulling the sleve of his swet shirt over his hand and holding a bolt in the end of the wire next to the valve cover. When it shocked him he smacked himself in the face it was hillarious.
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From: Sweetwater Texas
How many volts do the HEI setups on a 82 Olds 307 have? cuz my demo derby car has .80'' gapped sparkplugs from the factory, and so I was all huh about that far of a gapping then I accidently got hit from of its plug wires and I wasn't enough touching the car, I made sure none of my body was touching the car, but it still got me. ( I was holidng the wire in my hand testing for spark)
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From: Las vegas
I'm not sure I know the E coil is the most eficiant desing and puts out the most voltage. The most painful set up I've ever been hit by. When I went to UTI in hot rod U the theacher broke out the MSD tester and asked if any one wanted to stick their finger in it no one would So i did it after that a couple others did it but I was first.