I've just got to share this...

[Andrew_C]

and didnt fade off the channel cause it was part of a scene in the memory and it would have meant killing all the lights (idiot lighing desk ). The round pin 15A sockets that lighting uses doesnt have the insulated part of the live and neutral pins

It still would have bitten you faded down. All due to the way dimmers work.

 

Moral of that story? Never touch the shiny bits!

[john]

I did a smiliar thing with the electric shock...I was re-patching a lantern on the lighting rig during a rehearsal and didnt fade off the channel cause it was part of a scene in the memory and it would have meant killing all the lights (idiot lighing desk ). The round pin 15A sockets that lighting uses doesnt have the insulated part of the live and neutral pins...i caught my fingers on the two.......it hurt.

 

I was in year 9 at the time.

 

Should you have even been touching mains electic???

[roland]

Actually I heard, that this particular error is quite common amount emigrants who move to Australia, bringing with them their 110V electric devices.

 

Bang! Flash! puff !!

[Joedetic]

@john...If i shouldnt have been touching it then they shouldnt have asked me to touch it and the H&S officer should have expressed his concern for something more than ladders (which i never went near aside from moving them). But...at the same time it's not like i dont accept responsibility for it!

 

@Andrew_C yes. Uses thyristers or something like that IIRC. Fingers slip. You dont do it on purpose.

 

You learn your lesson very quickly to make sure that a circuit isnt live before you go near it. Always test to be on the safe side using a multimeter if you're not sure. (We get taught that at uni.) I was younger then and being careless. You dont learn not to prod the dog unless you get bitten...if you get my drift.

[BooBoo]

I had a techie do this on my work bench after fitting a new graphics card. He fitted the card during lunch as a private job for a teacher. He waited until registration to switch it back on not realising he had moved the voltage switch. The cloud of smoke set the detector off and we had to evactuate the building.

 

I blagged it for him when the head came aound asking questions but the power supply melted over the rest of the machine and the worktop.

 

From then on we don't have any private jobs in the school.

[EduTech]

lol

 

yh my friend of mine did this ''thinking'' i told him never to think again!

 

and yh it would be hilarious if it was a physics teacher that did that aha