Comments on: The “experienced with electrical shock” badge (LEVEL II)

By: Cyn

Cyn — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:32:14 +0000

Hey I told the kid to keep BOTH hands on the VDG generator.

By: Paul Camp

Paul Camp — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:49:23 +0000

I watched a guy discharge a rail gun capacitor with needlenose pliers once.

For safety.

By: KdellaPorta

KdellaPorta — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:30 +0000

I fixed a Van Der Graaf generator as a physics project once. One hand on the dome, the other shocking people. So much fun. Then the teacher managed to break the Van Der Graaf generator again by using it to shock the freshmen too often. I never got it to work again. Personally, I think it quit working in protest.

By: KdellaPorta

KdellaPorta — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:36:08 +0000

My mother was the unfortunate test subject of my homemade taser (after I tested it on myself several times). She insisted. I protested. She still insisted “for safety reasons,” then nearly confiscated it. Shocking someone else is so much worse than shocking yourself, because when you do it to yourself, you know it hurts, but you don’t feel guilty about it afterwards.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:57:58 +0000

I seem to shock myself every year or so when I am doing electrolyte demonstrations for my chemistry classes. Fun!