shocked by speaker wire

[mrfreshnklean 10+ year member]

WTF!!! That **** hurt.. just 300 watts, I would hate to feel it with 1200watts

Felt equivelent to a 120volt

While Im here, what really is watts? What voltage/amperage?

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[Vgs_Hstlr 10+ year member]

Hurts like a mother dont it..Iv done it on a 700watt amp and it hurt like hell...

Then i hooked up a capacitor in my buddies car and he was a dumbass and

pressed the ground to the positive and vica versa WHILE i was holdin it...

talk about pain...not only did it shock me....i got flash burn and couldnt see

for bout 20 minutes. I know how u feel and then some.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I don't know about you guys but, I've never been shocked by speaker wire! I guess my tolerance level is a lot higher.

(I)Amps=Current - Kills you

(V)Volts=Pressure of electricity

(P)Watts=Power

®Resistance=ohms

(L)Inductance

(F)Farads=Capacitance

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

120Vac only shocked you? dang - I've yet to try it on speaker wire...

when I was 6 i stuck a housekey in an ac outlet while my mom was washing some clothes and that electrocuted the hell outta me...but I'm still here...lol

 

[Lynxis 10+ year member]

doesnt electrocuted = being shocked to death.

as in drowning.. if you drown, you died by being under water and being asphixiated

right?

 

[HawaiianHaole 10+ year member]

from dictionary.com

e·lec·tro·cute ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-lktr-kyt)

tr.v. e·lec·tro·cut·ed, e·lec·tro·cut·ing, e·lec·tro·cutes

To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.

To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

 

[Lynxis 10+ year member]

yeah, see!

 

[mrfreshnklean 10+ year member]

actually me and my friend were sticking our fingers in a light socket.

It only made or hand "vibrate" and we didnt even get shocked... maybe it wasnt 120v...... we were drunk though.

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

WTF!!! That **** hurt.. just 300 watts, I would hate to feel it with 1200watts
Felt equivelent to a 120volt

While Im here, what really is watts? What voltage/amperage?

Watts is the combination (product) of volts times amps.

300 watts into 4 ohms is about 35 volts. You can feel that (as you found out).

 

[wags 10+ year member]

I got shocked holding some wires down but nothing major. just like hey wtf its starting to hurt kind of feeling. Nowhere near the pain of me getting burned by touching my friend's RF amp LOL.

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

watts is joules per second, also watts = amps x volts

amps is coulombs(sp?) per second, a coulomb is 6.25 x 10^18 electrons

volts = amps x ohms

 

[fast4door 10+ year member]

Ac is 110 volts, this will possibly knock you down most likely only sting alittle. Now my fish tank lights run off of 220volts this will literally make you bleed if you accidently get them wet. 12 volts shouldnt do any thing to you unless there is 100 amps running threw it as well!!!

 

[desi_daru 10+ year member]

i used to get shocked like a motherf*cker in electronics 11, nothin ever happend, u jus get woken up in the mornin (120v ac, alternating current, its f*cked)

edit: oh ya 1 time my buddy got shocekd for like 5-10secs and all the lights in the room dimmed, he jus sat down for 20mins ahhaha

 

[mrfreshnklean 10+ year member]

so do speakers take DC or AC?

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

music is AC so that is what speakers usually receive but you can put a battery(DC) to one and it will just move one way and stay there