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Mike Sokol

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2018, 06:47:37 AM »

I've just written the Stray Voltage Detection app. It's foolproof.

Before you test for stray voltage, you press the "About to test" button. 

Then you touch the surface that you think might the electrified. 

After that, you press the "OK, I didn't die" button on the app. 

If you don't press the second button, the app reports that stray voltage was present.

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2018, 09:24:39 AM »

I've just written the Stray Voltage Detection app. It's foolproof.

Before you test for stray voltage, you press the "About to test" button. 

Then you touch the surface that you think might the electrified. 

After that, you press the "OK, I didn't die" button on the app. 

If you don't press the second button, the app reports that stray voltage was present.
Except the body laying there is a dead giveaway.  :o

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2018, 11:51:36 AM »

I've just written the Stray Voltage Detection app. It's foolproof.

Before you test for stray voltage, you press the "About to test" button. 

Then you touch the surface that you think might the electrified. 

After that, you press the "OK, I didn't die" button on the app. 

If you don't press the second button, the app reports that stray voltage was present.
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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2018, 12:32:25 PM »

The trick is to touch with the back of your finger so the grip reflex pulls you away.
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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2018, 03:12:13 PM »

The trick is to touch with the back of your finger so the grip reflex pulls you away.

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2018, 07:13:45 PM »

The trick is to touch with the back of your finger so the grip reflex pulls you away.

Yup, I was taught to always scrape a knuckle on any box or wire that had ANY chance of being electrified. Even after I metered it and confirmed it wasn't hot. I just never grab onto anything metal any more. Learned my lesson in my youth...

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2018, 01:16:31 AM »

More about the MGM National Harbor electrocution in the Washington Post.  Seems there were multiple Code violations.
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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2018, 07:22:49 AM »

More about the MGM National Harbor electrocution in the Washington Post.  Seems there were multiple Code violations.

Yes, just saw it on the morning news a few mintues ago. I'll look at this in more detail later, but the reporter said somthing about the 12-volt lighting was accidentally connected directly to 120 volts.

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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2018, 10:52:47 AM »

As an electrician that article is painful story to try and read-mainly because the writer is obviously clueless but that is probably true of most reporting.  Sounds like a lot of short cuts took place on that job.

The ONE thing that would have absolutely prevented the shock ( not electrocution thankfully ) would have been that little phrase requiring " anything that is likely to be energized to be bonded ".  A lighted handrail has to be considere " likely to be energized ".  Had the 2 handrails been bonded to a common grounding electrode system, the lights might not have worked, and might even have let the smoke out, but no innocent bystander would have been hurt.  Everything else to me is poor workmanship and part of the failure- but lack of bonding is the root cause.
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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
« Reply #29 on: September 26, 2018, 04:20:21 PM »

Everything else to me is poor workmanship and part of the failure- but lack of bonding is the root cause.

I'd suggest that lack of bonding/grounding is a secondary cause. The root (or primary) cause is whatever causes something that should not be energized to become energized. Bonding/grounding provides a secondary means of protection should the primary means of protection (electrical insulation or connecting things properly) fail.

But that's just nitpicking language.
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Re: Two shocked at MGM National Harbor
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