 finding the polarity of a capacitor
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quicksilver
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Quantum Singularity wrote ...
......I've always told myself if I ever 'accidentally' get shocked by any of my big caps/transformers I'll get out of the hobby, because I'd be lucky to survive and probably wouldn't be so lucky twice!
I've limited myself to current levels that give me a chance of survival when I started this hobby and actually still stay in that range. However when working in construction when younger, I've been bitten quite a few times with 120 & one or two serious slams with 240. I walked back into a live circuit, laid my thumb across the prongs of a cord and not double-checked to make sure a circuit was turned off....
But this whole issue brings up something an old training officer once told a group of us.... he said :
"There is no such *$#@& thing as an 'accidental discharge' (of a firearm)! There is only a 'negligent discharge' (of a firearm) and if one of you ****s does something like that; kiss your ass goodbye, because I'm going to ruin your life".
It was a very good lesson. Since working with anything that can maim or kill is serious stuff and accidents are actually VERY rare if you examine the circumstances where such actions happen. Problems crop up when folks get sloppy & that may not be an "accident" but "negligence" on part of the user. I imagine that tripping or falling could be accidental but when working with a potentially lethal device, I don't think there is any room for "sloppy".
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teslacoolguy
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I have very similar rules about my safety also. 
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