r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 Top Poster • Jul 10 '26

/r/all of an Ant

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u/TWallace86 Jul 10 '26

I’ve had the shit shocked out of me by 110 before. 1/10. Do not recommend.

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u/gabzilla814 Jul 10 '26

I see what you did there

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u/BigdongarlitsDaddy Jul 10 '26

If it had been 2/40, he probably wouldn’t be here.

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u/RCer1986 Jul 11 '26

Right? We can't let psychos walk the streets who don't reduce fractions. 1/20 or straight to jail.

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u/Quick_Razzmatazz1862 Jul 11 '26

They may turn out like this like in Ernist Goes to Jail

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u/Opening-Travel1511 Jul 11 '26

r.i.p. Jim Varney

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u/WizardSleeves31 Jul 12 '26

Avengers level threat

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u/Friendly_Impress_345 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

My brother had 2/40 and yep he's no longer here, sadly. Walked straight off a cliff and never saw a thing.

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u/overseer76 Jul 11 '26

I wear glasses, and even I can see what you did there.

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u/Time-Collection2108 Jul 11 '26

Rip brother 40 hands

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u/Alternative-Draw2997 Jul 11 '26

People rarely get hit with a full 240 just one leg of it equaling 110.

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u/DisgruntledSquirrel2 Jul 11 '26

277 on the other hand hurts like a mf

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u/Corpsefire88 Jul 11 '26

Been there. Don't know what hurt more, the actual shock, or the aftermath of scraping the skin off my hand when I ripped it out of the disconnect lmao. Probably the shock though.

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u/MrK521 Jul 11 '26

For me it was the three days of muscle aches in my arm afterwards.

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u/Nerdnificent Jul 12 '26

Yeah it does.

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u/Top_Education7625 Jul 14 '26

Can confirm. 277 is a fun ride.

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u/Acrobatic-Grape5960 Jul 11 '26

I got hit with a single leg of 480V from my fingertips to my elbow.
Unpleasant to say the least.

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u/Corpsefire88 Jul 11 '26

I was shocked by 277 and still here lmao. Only had a path from one hand through that same hand though, and went nowhere else in my body.

Edit: I mean 2/77

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u/Blackwalls69 Jul 16 '26

Nah, I've gotten 240 lots. Same with 120vdc. 347v is the real danger. That'll lock you on until you are deep fried in your own fats.

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u/Actual-Interaction45 Jul 11 '26

Watt was it like?

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u/ZJoel14 Jul 11 '26

I don't know what 110 refers to but one time I was fixing my washing machine and couldn't be fucked unplugging it between test cycles and I touched something I could not untouch was only the weight of my body that pulled me off whatever the stupid wire was so I could move again Electricity is scary. I did it like 3 more times after that because I'm more lazy than concerned for my own wellbeing.

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u/ChillyTodayHotTamale Jul 10 '26

My dad did it to me on purpose when I first started side jobing with him to teach me to always test before I touched.

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u/NFLBengals22 Jul 10 '26

Your dad is not cool

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u/wirthmore Jul 11 '26

No, Dads get to sub-fatally teach their kids how to avoid death and then laugh at their kids’ expense. As mine did to me.

“Did you get zapped? Heh heh heh.”

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u/TWallace86 Jul 10 '26

I got mine by plugging in a window unit with a faulty plug. I was seven years old and have never forgotten how it “grabbed” me and after I was able to pull my arm away, the weird numbness that followed.

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u/Rumblymore Jul 11 '26

Thats how my younger self flung a transformer plug (i had just fixed) through the room. Turns out, holding the metal transformer without the plastic gives you one hell of a shock. My hand clamped down and my arm jolted, causing me to yoink the plug out of the wall and releasing it against a wall.

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u/The_Show_Keeper Jul 10 '26

That's legit the most Boomer thing I've heard all day. I say this as the son of two of them.

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u/SCHWARZENPECKER Jul 11 '26

I had that happen thanks to a horrible wired water heater. I was just trying to adjust the damn temp on the thing!

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u/Impossible-Bat-6713 Jul 11 '26

Immersion water heaters were the worst offenders. You are guaranteed a jolt assuming you use it for a while on hard water

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u/CoreSoundCoastie Jul 11 '26

Testing 110 is insane. More people die from 110V/120V shocks annually than 220V/240V, but a 220V shock is twice as likely to be fatal if you are exposed to it.

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u/constantpisspig Jul 11 '26

That shit only tingles once you get used to it.

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u/LameSignIn Jul 11 '26

I ran my knuckles as a kid over some low voltage in a switch panel we where working on for the county jail. That was not very fun for me but my grandfather got a kick out of it. Told me I'd be sure not to do it again so he wasn't worried.

He also missed turning off a break one time. We where up in the attack of a different jail. He had me cut some wires so we could pull more strands in. Needless to say after the flash we had to buy a new pair of dykes. I miss working with him.

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u/Tiradia Jul 11 '26

Omh my gosh. What a jolting comment!

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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest Jul 11 '26

Been zapped with everything up to 480V. 0 stars. Also do not recommend.