atsah
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because the outlet is grounded?
4800 Volts and a cat
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because the outlet is grounded?
buckeyefarmer
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Potential difference, ohms law.
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6string
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One Christmas, we received an electric hot dog cooker. It held 4 wieners between 2 rows of metal spikes. It had NO on/off switch just power cord. It had a clear safety lid, how in the world they were able to sell them in stores is beyond me.
k0ua
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Nope... thanks for trying though..
k0ua
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Nope, but it does have to do with resistance and voltage drop.
k0ua
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Yep.. winner, winner chicken dinner. Or in this case hot dog dinner!
There is a potential difference of voltage between the legs of the LED where the two legs are inserted a distance apart. The potential difference is small, but the LED doesn't need much voltage to turn it on. Athough it is AC the diode still turns on for half of the time due to the difference in voltage between its legs as the hot dog drops the voltage across its length. A really interesting dynamic situation.
k0ua
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Speaking of this potential difference along the length of the hot dog, Something similiar happens when a high voltage power line hits the ground. The fuse MAY blow or trip out, BUT it may not. Current will flow through the ground, and as you stand with your feet apart on that ground depending on how good the soles are and how sweaty, how high the voltage on the line, and so forth you may have a lethal potential difference between your feet. An interesting if potentially lethal phenomenon.
tjkubota93
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All our lines are 12 or 23kv phase to phase. 7 or 13 to ground.
I would not boom up to a cat in a bucket truck. That could go wrong many ways. Think about someone possibly getting hurt trying to help it. It could touch a phase and become energized while being retrieved. It could go phase to phase or phase to ground as well. All while in close proximity to a worker. Or he could just claw the heck outta the guys face. Working on energized high voltage is dangerous, and none of the equipment moves unpredictably on it's own. You'd have to tranquilize it first.
I wouldn't poke him with an extension stick either, for fear of him landing on me.
.22, climb down the same way he got there, become chinese food by way of electrocution, possibly become hawk food, or rot in place. He's on his own. I bet that's what the utility workers said.
The least risk to life, limb and equipment is to leave it be.
I would not boom up to a cat in a bucket truck. That could go wrong many ways. Think about someone possibly getting hurt trying to help it. It could touch a phase and become energized while being retrieved. It could go phase to phase or phase to ground as well. All while in close proximity to a worker. Or he could just claw the heck outta the guys face. Working on energized high voltage is dangerous, and none of the equipment moves unpredictably on it's own. You'd have to tranquilize it first.
I wouldn't poke him with an extension stick either, for fear of him landing on me.
.22, climb down the same way he got there, become chinese food by way of electrocution, possibly become hawk food, or rot in place. He's on his own. I bet that's what the utility workers said.
The least risk to life, limb and equipment is to leave it be.
tjkubota93
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They told us to to "bunny hop" away. Feet together.
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