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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: electrical deaths Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:32:01 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <hbso1lx20l.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <iv1dkj1d8qa5cvm4r5b7mbehcot0lnd057@4ax.com> <vi62rh$14fi$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <vi7k6j$37g9$6@dont-email.me> <vi99bt$f1r1$1@dont-email.me> <1r3qb00.1fgzoxb1tmjhzN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <vi9lp8$h8cq$1@dont-email.me> <1c8m1lxq3c.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <j26hkj1vm75movoahblpl1iuvacurpmco5@4ax.com> <viaj5e$mamv$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net RyVLQbJqsjrVwM9H/fs0IgJu3w5utWUlwkvOQ6SJ5A3cCPOrGE X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:yF/cPVjYDCu8LML1rEOFsqo5WOY= sha256:re61QjpflYwRx3jXd3pLqSG5xX7czxGIzBXfY3UDnqw= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <viaj5e$mamv$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2142 On 2024-11-28 21:17, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:33:59 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote: > >> I have a similar story, from a colleague who had worked at one of the >> big accelerators in the US Argonne National Lab in the 1960s. He worked >> in the powerhouse that provided 20,000 amps at 10 volts DC to the >> accelerator field coils (which were water-cooled copper then), delivered >> over a par of large copper bus-bars side by side. One day, >> he happened to drop a big steel wrench across the buss bars. The wrench >> evaporated with a bang, and the power system carried on. Startled but >> unhurt, he called the accelerator control room and asked - they looked >> and saw no indication of that momentary short. >> >> .<https://www.anl.gov/> > > This crazy English guy shorts out 50,000 Amps for a bit of fun! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGhhdPgXG8&t=7s !!! -- Cheers, Carlos.