My initiation was with a 900V AC lab supply in high school electronics
class. Somehow I managed to get a finger across both binding posts.
Knocked me on my butt.
A universal law is if the action is proceeded by "Hey!...Watch this!"
something stupid is about to happen. Like tossing an unfolded paper clip
at the 120V outlet in the bench back splash. Yep, first try, paper clip
exploded and blew the breakers.
That class was a lot of fun. The teacher was a ham and had a Swan 700CX
and Collins 75A4 in the school club ham shack.
On 1/7/2017 3:30 PM, Manfred Mornhinweg wrote:
Steve, and all,
I was nearly killed at age 15.
This seems to be a pretty universal initiation rite for homebrewers. I
used to be very careful and cautious even when a youngster, but still
couldn't avoid my own initiation. It happened when at age 16 or 17
somehow I managed to have a close encounter with the plate circuit of
an amplifier than ran 2.8kV. It didn't knock me back, instead it made
me cling to that circuitry with full force. I couldn't let loose,
neither could I speak or scream or anything. My lil' brother, 6 years
younger then I was, somehow realized that my strange antics weren't
entirely normal, ran to the house's electrical panel and threw the
main switch.
I think he later regretted that. Big brothers aren't always nice.
Manfred
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