Test lead versus 240V.
Added 2018-07-09 00:21:57 +0000 UTCRather predictably I didn't have the camera running when I did this. It was hilarious. I was trying to trace a problem on a mains voltage PCB and bridged live to DC with the probe while trying to get a good connection. The PCB now has a few more problems, mainly involving missing tracks.
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why dont you just record these things then if something happens then you can have video proof and then just cut it into the video.
2018-07-19 23:58:23 +0000 UTCWhen I bought my first house, I had enough work for myself, so I hired an electrician to wire the place (to my specifications). He said he'd give me the "new house rate" if I stripped out all the existing wiring. I removed all the fuses and started cutting wires until one blew up on me! It turned out that the house had at one point been a duplex, so it had two fuse boxes, and I hadn't noticed the second one. Fortunately, I was wearing the appropriate protective gear and sustained no injury myself, but those wire cutters had a notch blown out of them.
John Rehwinkel
2018-07-18 17:00:58 +0000 UTCCutting through a mains cable which you think is disconnected, but isn't, can also illicit the brown trousers effect
Gordo
2018-07-12 18:12:36 +0000 UTCI wonder if a fuse had blown in the battery backup.
Big Clive
2018-07-12 17:21:52 +0000 UTCOne time I got a nice little fireworks show when simply trying to change a plug in the back of a battery backup from passthrough to battery supported and the plug was being sort of stupid to pull out. I was working in a tight space and then all of a sudden the chain from the donation box fell across the two prongs and then I had a nice little fireball shoot out at me. Needless to say that battery backup was toast then replaced by the company that provides our till system.
2018-07-12 15:19:41 +0000 UTCBeen there - done that. Brown trouser time when I jerked my hand back and nearly stuck the now toasted probe into my eye!
Malcolm J Bannister
2018-07-12 09:48:41 +0000 UTCAh, yes. Reminds me of my friend who changed the starter on his vehicle without disconnecting the battery. Shorted out a spanner on it, turned it into a nice U-shape. (Caused a nice burn too, just before he threw it across the yard.)
Travis Terrell
2018-07-12 00:39:00 +0000 UTCI would hate to see a Clive re-enactment simply for our video-graphic sadistic amusement! If Electro - boom shows us why What Clive did was wrong, I'll join his patreon campaign!
Jim
2018-07-11 01:19:58 +0000 UTCYou don't need 240v either ... I got very specatular results with a metal watch strap across a 5 volt mainframe computer bus bar. Fortunately the power supply tripped out before the hundreds of amps did any serious harm.
Gary Bleads
2018-07-10 22:24:41 +0000 UTCAll true engineers have a probe like that. I certainly do.
Phil Collins
2018-07-10 13:19:37 +0000 UTCI once heard MANY years ago: "Grab the back of the TV set, and FEEL the power of comedy!!"
Chuck Kirchner
2018-07-10 02:26:20 +0000 UTCThe short was just across one probe tip.
Big Clive
2018-07-09 21:51:59 +0000 UTCI think they're used to the loud bangs and lights dipping.
Big Clive
2018-07-09 21:51:31 +0000 UTCOn the public Exploding Kryptonite game video, I saw someone guess "M for multimeter" that day it went live. I thought "nope" and then this post appears....
Seรกn Byrne
2018-07-09 21:33:13 +0000 UTCAh yes been there done that. Otherwise known as "brown trouser time"
2018-07-09 21:28:08 +0000 UTCHow did the multimeter fare? I mean, normally none of us test out the CAT ratings on those things... seeing the aftermath would be interesting :D
Mark Dennehy
2018-07-09 18:47:26 +0000 UTCYou will see the aftermath when I join the bits of that video together. There's not mcuh left of the PCB to do it to again.
Big Clive
2018-07-09 17:47:31 +0000 UTCBG, I think you owe it to your Patreons to do a retake with your camera running. What the heck are we supporting you for? Still photos?
2018-07-09 11:12:31 +0000 UTCClive. Do your neighbours...worry about you? they must hear all sorts of strange and wonderous noises and be subjected to lots of electrical burny smalls too
GL_1_Code1_1A
2018-07-09 09:40:19 +0000 UTCTrying some โtigโ welding again ๐๐บ
Vaughn B.
2018-07-09 08:25:10 +0000 UTCThose moments when the fault blows itself clear but takes half the PCB along with it... time for a nice strong cup of tea and a moment of quiet reflection. :) A colleague of mine was once poking around inside an amp that he was working on with an uninsulated screwdriver while it was still connected to mains. I started to say "Hey, you know that's still live right..." Too late... BANG! He went and had a wee sit-down while trying to figure out how to explain to the client that his very expensive amplifier was now going to take an extra two weeks to fix... :)
Chris Talbot
2018-07-09 08:21:47 +0000 UTCWe demand 24/7 filming! How dare you have fun without us. J/K Have you re-counted all you digits? BTW Blueiris is good for recording 24/7
2018-07-09 08:00:07 +0000 UTCOh dear, did you shit ya kecks??
2018-07-09 06:43:28 +0000 UTCIt's good to remind yourself every now and then that electricity has the capacity to remove bits and pieces off the human realm :-)
2018-07-09 06:06:44 +0000 UTC"[...] more problems, mainly involving missing tracks" - Big Clive, 2018. :D
Aaron the Tinkerer
2018-07-09 05:49:27 +0000 UTCShould have used GS38 approved probes, might have saved the day.
2018-07-09 05:25:01 +0000 UTCI had this happen to me at my last house. I was pretty sure the lighting above my bed had given me a tingle, but to be absolutely sure I thought I'd get out my meter and confirm it. Not only was it live at 120v and completely unshielded to prying fingers, but I accidentally bridged it with one probe and it passed enough current through it to melt the tip right off. I'm really glad I no longer live there, that place was a deathtrap. Here's a melted multimeter tip picture: <a href="https://twitter.com/Foone/status/846176879308488704" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Foone/status/846176879308488704</a>
Foone Turing
2018-07-09 05:06:07 +0000 UTCThat would be a welding rod.
Wim
2018-07-09 04:34:12 +0000 UTCYou let the angry pixies loose and also let the magic smoke out!
2018-07-09 04:05:06 +0000 UTCTime for a call to ProbeMaster!
2018-07-09 03:34:50 +0000 UTClesson learned. always have camera running
2018-07-09 02:24:21 +0000 UTC"BREAKING NEWS!!!.. BIG CLIVE MURDERS PCB DURING ROUTINE OPERERATION!!" Autopsy at 11!
Jono Harley
2018-07-09 02:13:52 +0000 UTC220... 221 ... whatever it takes..
Jeff Groves
2018-07-09 01:46:25 +0000 UTCYou're going to have to rename your channel to "BOOM Clive".
Howard Simons
2018-07-09 01:28:16 +0000 UTCWe've all done it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaLZHiJJnE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaLZHiJJnE</a>
John Carr
2018-07-09 01:25:43 +0000 UTCAh, who hasn't been there? But really, isn't the suspended terror half of the fun?
2018-07-09 01:25:21 +0000 UTCBANG !!!! WOOPS ! Time for a beer and a new fuse and probe
God 420
2018-07-09 01:11:07 +0000 UTCOr bigclive live
Jonathan Brown
2018-07-09 01:02:47 +0000 UTCOoh I've done that more than once...
iamdarkyoshi
2018-07-09 00:51:41 +0000 UTCYou need a dash cam above your work bench for unexpected excitement!
2018-07-09 00:38:26 +0000 UTCTime for a clean pair of underwear!
2018-07-09 00:35:50 +0000 UTCA co worker did that but managed to pop a lithium battery as well.
Michael Thompson
2018-07-09 00:33:33 +0000 UTCYep, I have a test lead that looks just like that.
Chris Parsons
2018-07-09 00:32:00 +0000 UTCI think I have a little bit of that kind of damage on one piece of my equipment. I hope the tracks fried are not from expensive piece of equipment.
Vaughn B.
2018-07-09 00:23:54 +0000 UTC
