• @[email protected]
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    3375 days ago

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

    And those generation alternators must be very confused.

    • @[email protected]
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      785 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        115 days ago

        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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          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      325 days ago

      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 🫶🏻

      • @[email protected]
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        325 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            195 days ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              05 days ago

              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?

              • @[email protected]
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                105 days ago

                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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  15 days ago

                  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.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    85 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            45 days ago

            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!

            • @[email protected]
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              05 days ago

              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.

              • @[email protected]
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                85 days ago

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

                • @[email protected]
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                  45 days ago

                  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.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    45 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        185 days ago

        Ah but your nerves rely on electricity so actually you only feel electricity, checkmate athiests

    • MrsDoyle
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      65 days ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 days ago

      Fellow electrician here, I’m convinced that electricity is magic. I’ve only been in electric for 2 years or so, but I’ll be damned if I know how that shit works. The copper touches together and that equals light, or motors spinning, or whatever have you. How? Idk, smarter people figured that out, I’m just here to make sure the damned drywallers don’t cover up our magic copper

      • @[email protected]
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        14 days ago

        Look up “potential difference” and that should make everything make a little more sense.

        Basically, the voltage component of electricity wants to flow where the potential is less than itself. In a 120v circuit, the neutral is bonded to ground at the main for a reference of 0v, and you hot leg will find the path of least resistance to that 0v (through the devices we put in line of that circuit, be it lights, motors, etc). The current, or load, in amps, is the work being done by those devices in conjunction with the designed resistance.

        Think of a simple incandescent light bulb. The filament has a certain level of resistance that’s designed to sustain a glow when power is applied to it. The 120v potential, trying to reach 0v ground, passes through that filament (the load), making it glow (the current draw is the amount of amps necessary to achieve its full brightness). A motor is similar; power passes through the windings, generating a magnetic field that react with magnets and spin the motor.

        Basically, your voltage drives the power through its path to ground, and current is drawn by work being done. V multiplied by A is Watts (kW), or power consumed.

    • Una
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      55 days ago

      Or did you felt it? vsauce music

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        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