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I never really considered
how much the
*clunk*
of a microwave door
sounds
JUST
like a high-voltage power supply transformer being shunted online
(*bcHNNNQUE!*)
until I was in the 20,000V half of the work laser
up to my elbows
and my coworker decided to nuke a burrito behind me.
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@ElectricKeet He didn't even *share!* O.O
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@Momentrabbit That... sounds... HORRIFYING!!!
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@JulieSqveakaroo It was a *fascinating* high-speed silent review of trying to figure out what I had forgotten and was about, obviously, to be killed by. Master switch? Off. HV, filament? Switched off, locked out. Residual tube charge? Bleeder circuit *and* grounded via staff and groundwire. No possible way there's any juice in this th-OH GHOD I MUST BE ON FIRE SOMETHING SMELLS AMAZING IS THAT CHIPOTLE WHY DOESN'T THIS HURT
waitasec.
(Beepbeep!)
... sonnuva-
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@Momentrabbit Yikes. No burrito is worth that kind of scare!