Audiophile Electrocution

I got hit with about 500v once, not a good time, it instantly burned my skin to the point it was a dead dry powder where the contact was made. I jumped, or rather it threw me a few feet back, the hair on my arms was standing straight up and I just plain didn't feel like myself for a few days. Muscles were sore, my head felt funny, and the actual spot where it touched hurt a lot.

What happened was a tube amp blew a tube and in the process popped a fuse as well. The fuse was hidden inside the amp, so of course I unplugged it and took the bottom plate off the amp. I see the burned fuse and like an IDIOT test one side of the fuse, no juice. What I failed to think about was which way the circuit ran, I tested down stream, there was still power left in the caps upstream - I won't make that mistake again. So I have my arm resting on the chassis(ground) and put my hand in there to pull the tiny little fuse and that's when I got it, but I did get the fuse out so all was not lost. But I was too shakey for the rest of the day to put the new fuse back in place, that had to wait a day.

Now I am much more aware of testing and draining power with resistors before I do anything dumb. The 500v's was a guess the manufacturer came up with when I told them the story.

Any long-term effects, tireguy? Run faster? More virile? Able to predict the future? See through doors?

His real name is Edgar Cayce Jr.

No real long term effects, I just felt weird for a number of days. A month or so later it was all a distant memory.

As a youth I was curious if an electric fence was on that I saw on the side of the road, so I grabbed it with my hand.... it was on. I've zapped myself more then a few times installing outlets and light switch dimmers and all of those pale in comparison to the amp zap.

I had a good zap checking the ignition wires on my '77 Firebird while the car was running. That 50,000 volt HEI ignition sure hits hard, and so did my head on the inside of the open car hood.