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[–] 315 points 1 year ago (46 children)

Electrician here, I've certainly felt electricity, and it sure ain't pleasant.

And those generation alternators must be very confused.

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  • [–] 109 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Appeaser here: You both make very good points.

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    As a non-electrician, I've also felt electricity and can confirm, it is indeed not pleasant.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You only felt what electricity did to you, not what electricity feels, it probably feels like Rogue from Xmen where when it touches someone it hurts them so it will not be able to experience love so its sad and angry

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Have you never been charged to thousands of volts? You can feel the static electric charge as it directly affects your body hair

    Additionally there is evidence humans can sense magnetic fields, with some populations always knowing where north is, and using cardinal directions in place of forward, backwards, left, right, front, and back

    Outsiders who have spent time with those people have learnt to sense their orientation.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    You did not feel electricity, you felt what it did to your body 🤓

    And your heart felt the frequency 🤓🤓 assuming AC.. hope you do your regular ECG 🫶🏻

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    No no, work around hv and you'll feel electricity even if you're not doing hot work a lot of the time you can feel the inductive fields around you.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    First of all, there are no "inductive fields". There are electric and magnetic fields and what you can feel or sometimes hear are the electric fields.

    Edit: I don't understand all the downvotes, but whatever. Specifically what you can hear near high voltage power lines sometimes is partial discharge which is caused by high electric field strengths.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Electromagnetic induction is what you're feeling and it is indeed creating an inductive field.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Electromagnetic fields induce electric fields, so you're saying these inductive fields that you can feel are electric fields or do you feel the magnetic field of the induced currents?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    An induced magnetic field is how you feel electricity around high voltage. What even is your argument here because what you're saying in large part makes no sense.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My argument is that you can't feel magnetic fields. What is yours, because all you write is utter nonsense. Electric fields are induced, not magnetic fields, it's called Faraday's law of induction, inductive field is not a technical term. You get a magnetic field from an induced current which is caused by the electric field in a conductor.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can absolutely feel electromagnetic fields. You're being overly tedious about verbiage. Neat.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    What kind of fields?

    When PD, arcing or sparking occurs, electromagnetic waves propagate away from the fault site in all directions which contact the transformer tank and travel to earth (ground cable) where the HFCT is located to capture any EMI or EMP within the transformer, breaker, PT, CT, HV Cable, MCSG, LTC, LA, generator, large hv motors, etc.

    Electromagnetic ones!

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, EM-Waves consist of an Electric and an orthogonal Magnetic field, these are linked, one can't exist without the other, otherwise you wouldn't get a wave. Partial discharge which is a form of corona discharge is caused by Electric fields.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Neat. So tell me, am I wrong in any of my statements this far. No? So what is the point of this tedious interaction?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're citing random parts of a wikipedia article that talks about an effect caused by an electric field and claim that it's caused by a magnetic field. You're an unscientific troll.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's not random if you read the wiki.

    And you're a tedious know-it-all. So again answer my question have I said anything untrue? No, I phrased something in a way you don't agree with because it's atypical but not inaccurate.

    Grow up or be more entertaining at the very least.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I may be an outlier here, but I've experienced mild electric shock from touching a random bare cable sticking out of a wall, and I found it weirdly pleasant. Refreshing, almost.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No! You only felt what it does.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Get charged to a few thousand volts, and you will feel the electric charge pushing your hairs away from each other

    You'll feel the electric fields just as you feel a breeze

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