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20-August-04, 04:50 AM
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| X5-452  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Atlanta
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    |  You Would've Thought! You would've thought that I learned from my mistakes. Well I didn't! LoL My last mistake costed me a 120Gb Seagate and an All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro, I didn't sleep the day before and started sleeving the Y connector. Plugged it in and ZZZAP! The HD started smoking and I went "oh sh!t !" I got totally pissed at myself for not sleeping. And we move on to yesterday, didn't sleep for 36+ hours. Just got my new UV 12" cold cathode from the FedEx man. I'm very happy with my purchase and start my day by wanting to get this into my case to see it's effect. My comp is turned off I pop off the side panel put on the velcro stickers onto the CC then figure where I want it on my case. When I "think" I like it on the side of the drive cages and place pieces of velcro there and then on the bottom outside the drive cage I place the inverter with velcro and plug in the CC. I turn on the compy then notice oh that doesn't look good, it's got a purple glow on one side and lots of blue on the other! So I place my thumb right on the inverter and try to pry it off the velcro its sticking to and I feel something stinging my thumb and next I smell something and hurrily take my thumb off the inverter. Since there were 2 plugs and I had only 1 CC plugged in the pins were still exposed and I got shocked and burnt by the inverter!  So now there is a 1mm burn into my thumb. I had to clean out the charred dead skin and run it under cold water but since it was burnt it didn't bleed out which was good  And I'm fine now, but it was definately a scare!LoL call it "shock therapy" if you want. And I have now learned to go to sleep before doing modding or drink something caffinated, and turn off the comp when working even if its not that big of a deal. TURN IT OFF anyway.
__________________ Spc. James W. Gardner 1983 ~ 2006 Project : Vash (Trigun) 
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20-August-04, 05:55 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Alithir...
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   | Just a thought, CCFLs have enough voltage to kill. You got LUCKY. I'm really glad you're not hurt worse-MRIs are the pits (modding related injuries)
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20-August-04, 06:06 PM
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| Key Hoe  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Defiance, MO (real city)
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| Cathodes are bad? I got shocked like, three times on the same finger. There was a nick in one of the protective rubbering, and bam. Fixed that one, and made another one. Dope! Oh well, best of luck, the marks don't last long and after the initial shock, it just feels like a burning splinter. |
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20-August-04, 07:02 PM
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| Bi P-Hoe-lar  Join Date: Jan 2004
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| I shock myself all the time when my hand slips trying to get a grip on a surge protector I'm grabbing. end up holding both prongs while it's still plugged in.
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20-August-04, 07:49 PM
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| Freck-hoe-d  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: TejAs!
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| Man I hate CCFL's the are the sux0rs. Especially the inverters. Had one burn up on me, thought it was my cpu frying but NOPE it was the inverter. They need to be but in an area with air movement.
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20-August-04, 11:25 PM
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| DuckWarrior's Personal Quack-Hoe  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Port Townsend, WA (US [of] A).. "America - F--- YEAH!!"
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| Know what ya mean, I have one ( Sound-reactive open) 12V PCI cathode inverter and one 12V enclosed ( box) inverter. Guess which one zapped me? Yup, i'm a fiend for accidentally touching two ( +/-) leads on those things, so ever since that ( rather painful, arm-numbing) incident while the PC was on, I always turned it off to do anything but perhaps removing a foolish bug that survived the fanblades.. 
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20-August-04, 11:38 PM
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| Banned  Join Date: May 2003 Location: looking for love in the nearest gay bar
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Bugs actually SURVIVE your case fans? I have over twenty dead mosquito's and several wasps along the floor of my case. What do you expect from dual monster 190CFM side intakes?  | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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20-August-04, 11:45 PM
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| Smooth Operator  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eugene OR
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Or maybe they're perverts and like using the ccfl to touch their gen... never mind.
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20-August-04, 11:50 PM
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| Banned Join Date: May 2003 Location: looking for love in the nearest gay bar
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Good god, I've zapped a few ladies private parts before with a 9v battery, but DAMN! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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20-August-04, 11:55 PM
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| Key Hoe Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Defiance, MO (real city)
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That just sounds freaking painful. And BA, I wasn't operating on it while it was on, I was positioning it when it was on when I discovered the nick in the shielding. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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21-August-04, 01:14 AM
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| X5-452 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Atlanta
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| Wow so many replies!!! I never knew that something like this has happend to so many people. BTW will the hole heal up and be as if it was never there or will it be permanent? Right now just looks like a blister dunno what to do with it. Oh and Kayin I never knew that CCFLs had deadly voltages and am glad that you care about my saftey  LoL I'm usually smart when I've had sleep, yet without it I'm just some sort of zombie that wants to eat brains!
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21-August-04, 10:07 PM
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| Ham Op-Hoe-rator  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NYC
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I don't think it has enough current to be lethal. However the voltage rating is like 600v. Regardless of "current ratings" or my opinions on what is lethal and what isn't, I wouldn't be snooping around with anything electrical when it is live. Its just good practice to treat all circuits as having the potential to kill. Whatever, I learned at a young age not to mess with electricity. Heh, I was practically thrown across the room when a screwdriver I was holding came in contact with a filter cap in a VCR's power supply. 
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22-August-04, 01:20 AM
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| Apex Tech Maniac  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Nebraska, the Other flat land...
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| The voltage is necessary to overcome the resistance of the skin, even at a high available current, a 1.5volt supply isn't going to kill you... The trick is Jessica, because you were touching both the terminals of the inverter with the same finger, the current only flowed through (and thus burned) that one finger. Hold one in each hand and you might be surprised... In theory at least, let's just say I've seen the results of a few 277 volt 'surprises' and they weren't amusing.
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22-August-04, 11:41 AM
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| Ham Op-Hoe-rator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NYC
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| I think the minimum voltage that you can "feel" is 35volts. Not sure what amperage it would need to be at to kill. It differs from person to person, what voltage/amperage can lead to death. It has to do with body weight, height, age, and if your beautiful or not.  Aha, so thats why you didn't die. 
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