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Call me a pussy all you want....I turn the whole fucking house's power off when I work on electric shit!!
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One of my college professors had a friend that was killed because he was putting in a ceiling fan on a live circuit.
Call me a pussy all you want....I turn the whole fucking house's power off when I work on electric shit!!
Exactly, its a little zap and nothing more. I got zapped last Saturday putting in a new recessed LED light in my basement bathroom. The funniest part, the fuse box was literally 15' away from where I was working lol.psh, be a man and don’t turn the breaker off and just yell ”fuck” like the rest of us when we get a little zap. That’s when you know to be a little more careful!
You are a pussy. As am I lol, whole house breaker gang here LOL.Call me a pussy all you want....I turn the whole fucking house's power off when I work on electric shit!!
Knowing it's a Streamwood house, killing the basement circuit also probably kills half the upstairs too.Exactly, its a little zap and nothing more. I got zapped last Saturday putting in a new recessed LED light in my basement bathroom. The funniest part, the fuse box was literally 15' away from where I was working lol.
Your 100% correct lol. My fucking microwave and 2 other outlets in the kitchen for some strange reason are on the same circuit as half my basement.Knowing it's a Streamwood house, killing the basement circuit also probably kills half the upstairs too.
Been trying to educate these guys...they don't listen.I’ve eaten more voltage than everyone on this forum combined X10 and I’m only alive due to blind luck. Turn off the breaker every time. 110 can kill you given the right circumstances, the right circumstances can be as easy as how you touch the wires and whether your body contracts into the voltage or away from it. If your involuntary contraction pushes you into the circuit and the circuit breaker doesn’t work you cook and you cook slowly, meaning you know you’re going to die and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Macho tough guy bullshit gets you killed.
I'm not saying don't kill the breaker, I'm saying don't need to kill the whole house.Been trying to educate these guys...they don't listen.
In a modern home, I would agree 100%.I'm not saying don't kill the breaker, I'm saying don't need to kill the whole house.
110 can kill and does.Did the zap scare him and he fell off the ladder? Or mess with his pace maker?
Nothing wrong with this approach at all. I've found some sketchy wiring in my 1950s built house. Most of the light switches are in 2 gang boxes where each switch in the same box is on a separate breaker. If I kill power to just the one circuit I want to work on, there could still be live power in the switch box unless I make sure to find the other breaker and kill power to the second switch.Call me a pussy all you want....I turn the whole fucking house's power off when I work on electric shit!!
Nothing wrong with this approach at all. I've found some sketchy wiring in my 1950s built house. Most of the light switches are in 2 gang boxes where each switch in the same box is on a separate breaker. If I kill power to just the one circuit I want to work on, there could still be live power in the switch box unless I make sure to find the other breaker and kill power to the second switch.
Current probes aren't reliable.Just kill the breaker and use an AC current probe to make sure the circuit is dead before you go licking the wires. Can use a multimeter too.
It’s not the volts that get ya, it’s the amps.Current probes aren't reliable.
Meter verified in a known good circuit first, then confirm circuit you're working on is zero volts.