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Subject: Re: electrical deaths
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:17:50 -0000 (UTC)
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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