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Originally Posted by bobw
Thanks for all the encouragement ! I have yet to electrocute myself... but I'll keep trying.
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I've heard of people getting killed messing with 110 so don't try too hard. I've been zapped with 110 too many times to count. I've even got the hell zapped out of me working on a 220 dryer outlet one day. I had turned the breaker off, the ex- Mrs. Tully noticed the breaker box door open and the breaker off- so she turned it back on. I touched a screw driver to the live wire and the power traveled up my arm down my side and leg then exited through my knee which was next to the hot water pipe. Blew a hole in my knee about the size of a silver dollar. I'm still breathing. Had I been standing in water barefoot not sure I'd be typing this, so I don't work on anything without "tagging it out" even at home, even alone.
Bottom line- be careful. Live/hot wires are not toys.