Yes, but not aquarium related. Work related. It’s not fun, I was lucky only had heart rhythm issues, was extremely sore, and my elbows and knees turned black and blue. Someone hired an “electrician” to repair a piece of industrial equipment that wasn’t working. Well, they got it working by stealing the ground conductor and used it as line voltage as one of the line conductors had burned up underground in a conduit. I went to service the equipment later not knowing the history. The motor had frozen and welded but did not trip he breaker. The entire machine was live at 277 volts, when I kneeled down to look at it, I rested my hand on the machine to lower myself to the ground. Well, I turned into a human wiggy. Luckily a janitor saw me and knocked me off the machine with his broom.
Good call, if you had a heart issue just get a set of probes and check first!
Exactly, big difference between a tickle and going to the hospital.
This makes my story of being a ground for a plasma cutter pretty insignificant. Glad you were okay.
It’s not the voltage, it’s the current
Been there and done that too. Forgot your gloves or were you resting your arm on the workpiece?
We always had to work on live circuits….lock out tag out only applied in certain situations. I would zap people all the time for craps and giggles. I’d grab a hot and then grab the guy watching over my shoulder. Oh workplace humor
My dad and I were cutting some sheet metal to make some custom hvac ductwork. My job was to place the sheet metal on the table and hook the ground up. He once started cutting before I had the ground hooked up, but my hand was still on the sheet metal. It hurt but ultimately wasn’t that bad, nothing like what you experienced.
So long as the GFI is working yes. it will trip as soon as you touch the water if something is trying to find you as a path to ground.
Actually you can be electrocuted and live. Electrocution is defined as death or severe injury. GFci works great when installed and working properly. Almost every gfci issue I ever found was because someone miswired the outlet, there was no ground wire (only a hot an neutral), or had a cheap or defective outlet.
That's a very misleading statement. The voltage actually matters substantially and is half of what determines the current.
