Grabbing 230,000 Volts

Host Sean Riley grabs 230,000 volts of electricity with his hands to repair an electrical grid. One wrong step could kill.

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• Technology:
• Engineering
• power
• lines
• voltage
• electric
• wire
• grid
• volts
• energy
• helicopter
• electrocution
• national geographic

[Headshot212]

Volts don't flow.

[irishkerry]

@JetMechMA your right about letting the line touch the ground first especially if your on standing on metal and surrounded by water its so bad that you probably wont be able grab it...

[Sidewinder9877]

@JetMechMA Because they are touching only ONE wire and not going to ground or to another phase.

[ntfclad1985]

@JetMechMA Because birds come from thin air which is the best insulator of electricity there is and land on one phase only and this creates no potential. A bird is so small it does not create a path worthy of electricity to flow through. If a bird had wide enough legs and touched two phases at the same time or touched a phase and earth it would be a dead bird. Electricity is a lazy thing. It will always find the easiest route from one spot to another or the easiest route to earth

[JetMechMA]

I thought these guys were bonding on, because the helicopter produces static electricity due to the whirrling blades. 230,000 volts would make a man disappear in a puff of steam, wouldn't it? I always heard that if you were being rescued by a helicopter to let the line touch the ground first to avoid the static shock. Yes? No?

[JetMechMA]

@ntfclad1985 Why don't birds get juiced?

[ntfclad1985]

@Billinghaylad1976 But if he didnt use the bonding clamp there would be a difference of 230000 volts between him and the phase and his ass would be toast regardless of touching the ground or not

[ntfclad1985]

Volts that jolts mills(amps) that kills. If he didnt use the bonding clamp there would be a difference (potential) of 230,000 volts between him and the phase and he would die along with the rest of the crew.

[ntfclad1985]

@botch916 50milli amps will stop your heart.

[botch916]

@koringn You are fired. The amps are what kills. Can you make an educated "guess" how many amps can put a man down?

[fromashestoflame]

@sanosukke sorry dude I was arguing a moot point. I meant around him and the helicopter not through him. my bad