Yesterday while hooking up my subwoofer in the truck,,, I was pulling a positive wire through and it hit something that made a significant arc,,,, not sure how it happened, because nothing was grounded yet….
It got me to thinking about my grandpa, who was an electrician . I happened to be on a job site with him,, I think I was 17at the time,,, he was called because there was a problem with the people getting bit by just walking over a place in the ground.
He walked around intentionally to find it…and once he did,, he got bit,, stepped away from the area for a few seconds,,, then stepped back on … he did that about 5 times,, he had a smile and a gleam in his eyes every time he did it..he asked me if I wanted in on it and I said NO!!! He laughed,,, and then did it a few more times.
He liked it!!! Haha.

Don’t know if it had anything to do with him getting hit by lightning several years prior…
I didn’t inherit the joy of getting bit.

A 12v system shouldn’t “bite” you, it scared you. There’s a difference. A vehicle doesn’t have enough juice to do actual damage, just make sparks

you don't get bit by 12v

but yes you can do some welding

either you need to not connect the wire before pulling it or you disconnect the ground when you start working on the truck

always ground/ negative / Black off the battery first and on last

at no point do you want to be connecting or disconnecting the Red/ + with the black/- connected

even then disconnecting the ground is a good idea when pulling in doors , you can pull your wire past a live wire and snag it and pull it against a sharp edge , plenty of sharp edges in GM doors , the scar on my wrist is evidence , so sharp I hardly even realized till I was bleeding all over.


now the feeling of being shocked , varies a lot for people and how you are grounded

I will grab an electric fence wire especially one I know isn't real hot and disconnect it or move it as needed , if you have an audience you make sure to make eye contact , smile and not flinch , they wonder how the heck you are doing that and will try it them selves , if they are thin skinned , wearing wet or not very insulating shoes , it will lite up their life not much risk of damage from a fence charger unless you are old or have a bad heart.

no I don't like getting shocked but if I am going to get you to grab a fence I have to put on a good show that it doesn't hurt.

My grandfather was an electrician, if he wanted to check if a wire was hot he'd just lick his finger and touch it, if his hand shot back he'd just say yep!...and go about his business,
lived to 92 so ......

Fifty years ago, worked in a mine with trolley line. It was bare copper, about the diameter of a dime, hung on insulators from the mine roof, above the rails. The rails were the ground, trolley was 440 DC. I got zapped more times than I can remember. Once, I ran my locomotive ( we called them motors ) onto a section of track that hadn’t been used in months. Lights went out on the motor, no power. I hopped off the motor, into a mud hole. The shock almost knocked me out. I tasted my fillings in my teeth. When I got on the crusty track, I lost my ground . When I slid out of the kitchen of the motor into the mud, I became the ground. Never repeated that mistake.

I do simple electric work with my degree from YouTube university and I am able to figure it out then I use a tester to make sure I did it right. The more you do it more you understand it and pick up little tricks. I’ve put in breaker boxes, underground lines and wired and rewired buildings/sheds it’s not rocket science.

The down side is I'm SLOW very Slow but I get it done I’m that way with any new projects I take on do it right is the goal not speed.

Back before I was born, my grandpa was working on my great-grandpa's motorcycle; charging the battery or fixing something or other. Anyway, he got his wedding ring on something and it got like welded there, or stuck or something. He couldn't take the ring off because of the angle or something, and he couldn't pull his hand away. It kept getting hotter and hotter, and the ring was burning his finger. Then finally he hit his hand with a wrench he had handy, and it came off. He showed me the mark from the ring on his finger.

why so many guys wore their wedding rings of their watch bands or on a chain around their neck

and now the silicone rings are so popular with so many

I haven't worn my wedding ring in about 15 years

many jobs where you are required to take them off for safety

If you want a little tickle from a 12v, do what I do to find a plug that is fouled out
Start the car and pull and replace one plug wire at a time until I find the one that doesn't change the missing in the motor.
It's just quicker than pulling each plug out one at a time

I hot wired a 220 circuit many years ago. Never again!

It happens sometimes when I’m welding! Not fun!

I got bit pretty good once. My old man would sit on his butt and wave his hands arounds to give orders to all us channel changing/beer fetching kids. I got sent down stairs to the beerator to fetch while barefoot, and when I touched that handle I got knocked on my fanny. 65 odd years later I can still feel it!

Does getting bit by electric fences count? Got that a few times on the farm in younger days.

Got bit once changing the ballast on a 4 bulb light fixture in a commercial building at the hospital I used to work for. Still not quite sure what I did other than might of caught a short. Knocked me off the latter.

Helicopters will light you up on a rainy day, they build static from the friction of the rotors turning, and you’re touching the bird and the ground at the same time, it gets spicy

Short the terminals of a 9 volt battery for a smoke detector with your tongue. That'll tickle.
My father in law died under a house when he got wet working on plumbing and got into electricity. 110 I would guess but never really heard. Left his wife with 8 kids to raise.

I've have a strong fear of electricity since I was 5 years old. Some neighborhood kids were playing football in our neighbor's yard and a kid ran into one of those metal, yard light poles and it fell on his leg. He was dead in minutes. I will never forget that image burned into my brain. Also stuck a key in an outlet at a very young age. Since then, I trip the breaker or unhook the battery cables before I tear into something.

I think the reason you don't see 9 volts used much anymore is fire. Since the positives and negatives are on the same side they are easy to short. Don't let them come into contact with steel wool in your junk drawer. In this day of the safety Nazi's it is interesting that 9 volt batteries are still allowed?

Retired electrician with 42 years in. Lots and lots of hot work,480/277v mostly in hospitals where equipment could not be shut down. Some13,200/7620v but we mostly shut that down unless we just couldn't. There were a few times we just couldn't.

In those years I was bit twice by 277v but never across the chest. Never by 480v, and 240v single phase just a few times.
And of course,a 120 buzz is kind of a weekly occurrence. A friendly love tap. Lets you know your alive.
I consider myself very very lucky.

Had a kid working for me in the late 90s, (bosses son-inlaw of course). H was sitting on top of a 12' step ladder hooking up 2x4 lights and and got 277v through his arms and across his chest. His working buddy had the foresight to kick the ladder over and Tyler came down. But that broke the connection. When I got there there was the smell of burnt pork in the air. Like barbecue. He spent the night in the hospital to get his arrhythmia curied and then decided he wanted another line work. That was a win win for both of us.

and now they come in all paper packaging? obviously they arent that much of a fire risk or walmarts around the country would of burned down last month as those batteries sat on pallets for months

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm lost. Paper is not a conductor?

Had this happen in the junk drawer once. Had a penny heat up in my pocket once. Now I tape the top of 9 volt batteries.