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I know it’s generally a bad idea but I wire hot. You just have to have a good understanding of how to do it.
I was wiring up outlets in a little room with no windows many years ago. Like @timselectric, I don't feel much with 120v. A little tingle unless I wet my finger. Well this crappy building had the outlets and the light on one circuit. I couldn't work in the dark so I was wiring them up hot. Wasn't a big deal to me. Then a buddy dropped by to chat and offered to give me a hand. I didn't even think about the circuit still being hot. Needless to say, he was not happy with me. But I was too busy rolling on the floor laughing to notice. I didn't do it on purpose but I try to avoid that situation anymore.I know it’s generally a bad idea but I wire hot. You just have to have a good understanding of how to do it.
Late to the party here, I just wanted to add, both in reply to the quote above and to the thread subject:Speaking from experience here, a pair of dry Crocs will electrically insulate you from ground. Just don't bump anything with another body part. ?
It wants to return to the source. This is the only way to complete the circuit.AC wants to travel to ground
Yes, it is a lot.I just took a full 8 hour electrical safety course at work last week.
I knew you needed to be safe, but holy crap I did NOT know the level of safety gear the industry expects you to wear just to go into an electrical panel and use a multimeter to verify no electricity on what you're working on.
I'm talking, appropriately electrically rated shirt (with hood) , pants, shoes, gloves, balaclava and full electrically rated face shield.
Everything is rated in calories, to protect against a potential arc blast.
Granted we work with 3-phase AC 480, 208 etc, but it's A LOT.
They showed us three or four videos of the aftermath of people not wearing any PPE and admittedly I still left the class thinking that some of it was pretty overkill.
OH NO !!!! Oh the humanity !!!! not the beer!I've zapped myself (lost count)
Hit myself on the head by accident (more than once)
Buried a utility blade into my thumb
Wrecked my shock absorber's pinch bolt when rebuilding my suspension on my truck
Ripped the top of the shock off on my other truck using an impact (dummy)
broken a water pipe (or two...)
dumped raw eggs on the floor
and punctured my beer
DC PPE is the same from 200V to 2000V above 2000V is is SCARY, so I have no idea.You should see what they make the auto workers wear to assemble the 400 V batteries. Being as they're doing the battery connections there is no way to turn it off...
I haven't heard anything yet on what they're going to require for the 800 V batteries they're heading towards.
The easiest answer is don't work on anything live.So just curious, do the pro's here have any recommendations for gloves for the DIYer who is working on a 500-600vdc string? Just curious if there are any cheap protective gear we should consider getting (not that we actually would use it )