stupid question - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 03:21:49 am
content: have you ever licked a 9 volt battery

author: Silveruser
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 03:23:51 am
content: Stupid answer: Yes

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 03:43:51 am
content: Someone actually hasn't? I still test them like that.

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 07:39:36 am
content: no. The thought of licking a 9 volt battery absolutely terrifies me. I can't, I shan't, and I won't.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 07:44:54 am
content: All the time...

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 07:52:32 am
content: Don't remember if particularly licked 9 V batteries. Very likely that yes but without a doubt licked 4.5 V ones. They were common in the toys available here on that time.

author: bookaboo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 07:59:10 am
content: Pffft I use the "irish multimeter" all the way up to 110AC.

author: HighVoltage
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 08:17:30 am
content: You have to do it at least one time in your life.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 08:26:34 am
content: Quote from: bookaboo on September 09, 2015, 07:59:10 amPlease can I use that?Oh lick 9V battery...yes a long time ago.

author: timb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 09:12:00 am
content: If by 9V batteries you mean toads then ohhhh colors... Mm mm I taste all the colors.Sent from my Tablet

author: Balaur
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 09:35:15 am
content: Quote from: wraper on September 09, 2015, 07:52:32 amI liked the 3LR12 4.5V batteries. Rather nice and square, easy to connect to the tabs with simple wires.It was also really easy to make a torchlight by placing a light bulb on the short terminal, securing it with some tape, and using the long tab as a switch to contact the center pin of the bulb.A normal bulb gave you a flood light and a lens one made a focused beam.

author: canibalimao
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 11:06:35 am
content: Quote from: bookaboo on September 09, 2015, 07:59:10 amAbout the 9V batteries, I did that a long time ago, when I was a kid and learned that those little "cubes" can give a small scare. Now I can't do that. I don't have the courage to do that. And just thinking about that makes me salivate a lot and contracts my tonge!

author: Chris C
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 11:17:39 am
content: I've let people use stun guns on me, to show them their new toy doesn't instantly drop someone like they show on TV. Better than them thinking they're invincible should they end up in a real confrontation.But I have not licked a 9V, somehow that scares me.

author: Kostas
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 12:06:19 pm
content: Yes, I have, as a kid. I had tried a 1,5V battery first. Hmmm... a 9V battery is benign stuff, it can't hurt, can it?Nowadays I wouldn't like to.

author: Kostas
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 12:13:47 pm
content: Oh, and speaking of licking batteries etc...

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 12:43:41 pm
content: I've licked so many 9v batteries that my tongue has been permanently nickel electroplated.

author: MapleLeaf
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 01:24:50 pm
content: Oh yah, reading the original question I could still feel the metallic tongue jolt.

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 01:41:54 pm
content: Quote from: Chris C on September 09, 2015, 11:17:39 amI had a play with a couple of law enforcement tazers a few years ago and I can assure you *they* instantly drop someone like they show on TV. I got to give and receive, and while I'm a bit of a wimp the ex-marine I was playing with reckoned he could beat it. Bzzzt, he went down just as hard. He just didn't scream like a girl doing it.Now, there are tazers and there are tazers. These were a particularly brutal model.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 02:00:54 pm
content: Quote from: BradC on September 09, 2015, 01:41:54 pmex-marine?US or Royal?No,I guess it must be a US Marine----not sure you would be capable of posting if it was a Pommy one!Not known for anger management!

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 02:12:47 pm
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on September 09, 2015, 02:00:54 pmHaha, yes he was a yank. Really nice bloke and built like a brick shithouse. Actually, to be honest I've never met an ex-serviceman I didn't like from any country.

author: Icarus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 02:36:58 pm
content: As you may notice, lots of engineers had tired this in their childhood and this experience damaged them beyond repair.This unfortunate event known as "The Knack"

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 07:54:21 pm
content: Quote from: BradC on September 09, 2015, 02:12:47 pmSome from ZA you would not like to meet, even in broad daylight. Think a lot are working as "contractors" either up North, or in certain countries with a lot of sand. I knew a few of the saner ones. Best advice about getting along with them was to keep out of the way.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 10:53:29 pm
content: So, for those who use the Irish voltmeter. How many bits of resolution do you reckon you have? Mine seems to be somewhere between 1 and 2 bits over the "linear" range. Might be able to push that to 3 bits on a very good day. Big dead zone at the bottom, and definitely not CAT I, II or III.

author: ccs46
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2015, 11:02:43 pm
content: Quote from: CatalinaWOW on September 09, 2015, 10:53:29 pmMillions if not billions of bits, (Taste buds) and I think it's rated CAT 6. (Please don't take this post seriously, I'm just joking.)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

author: isaiahA
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2015, 12:08:32 am
content: ok! I could have done with out the 1st video. i have never licked a 9 volt battery

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 03:32:47 am
content: I have

author: Connoiseur
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 04:03:01 am
content: Yes, I have and biting onto the terminals is even worse of an experience.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 04:07:07 am
content: There are people who play with electronics for a hobby or for a living who HAVEN'T?!?-Pat

author: JoeB83
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 04:39:00 am
content: Of course.....who hasn't?

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 05:00:13 am
content: How else could you test if a battery was still good before you had a multimeter?Plus the tongue is more accurate because you are testing the battery under load

author: JoeB83
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 05:34:29 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on October 14, 2015, 05:26:27 amI once picked up a hobby-size 12V 2Ah lead-acid battery....wearing a watch with a metal wristband. My watch shorted out both terminals, had a nasty burn for about 6 weeks.

author: JoeB83
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 06:14:57 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on October 14, 2015, 05:38:37 amWell......at least women think scars are sexy!

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 06:50:03 am
content: What do you mean? I eat 9V batteries for breakfast!Just kidding, but yes.That reminds me of how my electronics teacher used to warn Year 7s to not plug an LED straight into the mains. Using the magic of reverse psychology, a loud bang always ensued.

author: JoeB83
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 07:01:33 am
content: Quote from: crispy_tofu on October 14, 2015, 06:50:03 amSon of a bitch. Reminds me of my high school chemistry course......as a joke, our teacher said we could earn extra credit by reporting the effects of metal sodium in water. Not understanding the joke, some other students (thankfully in a different section) actually did it and got in trouble with our local law enforcement. Everything worked out though.

author: VK5RC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 09:52:39 am
content: Quite often, I must have a high resistance tongue, I don't get that much of a jolt, reminds me a bit of a strong Thirst Lifesaver / Fruit tingle . (I'm a bit thick maybe) HiHi.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 14, 2015, 11:58:20 am
content: Quote from: grifftech on September 09, 2015, 03:21:49 amlol yes, back in the early 1980s in infants school, a teacher while doing some basic science class invited everyone to lick a 9v battery and then pass it onto the next person to try......a week later 1/2 the class had chicken pox and i was one of them

author: Connoiseur
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 01:58:54 am
content: Quote from: miguelvp on October 14, 2015, 05:00:13 amActually the method should be called "Tasting the battery".

author: rickselectricalprojects
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 02:07:55 am
content: i have licked two in series

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 02:31:29 am
content: Quote from: rickselectricalprojects on October 19, 2015, 02:07:55 amHow was it?

author: rickselectricalprojects
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 02:45:58 am
content: Quote from: crispy_tofu on October 19, 2015, 02:31:29 amit hurt, a lot but not as much as when i was just starting out i ran a small alarm clock transformer in as a step up transformer with another alarm clock transformer so the output voltage was about 650v ac and that really, really, REALLY hurt. (it was my finger this time, not my tongue)Quote from: blueskull on October 19, 2015, 02:41:39 am

author: rickselectricalprojects
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 02:46:58 am
content: Quote from: rickselectricalprojects on October 19, 2015, 02:45:58 am

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 03:54:50 am
content: Eek, makes me cringe!

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2015, 03:58:06 pm
content: Good thing we don't have the 90V 'B' batteries that used to be used in portable tube radios (looked like a massively overgrown 9V; about 7/8" thick, 2" wide and 8" long - ~2 x 5 x 20cm) around anymore, huh?-Pat

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 04:15:36 am
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on October 19, 2015, 03:58:06 pmWell, they aren't gone yet - and you can get batteries well over 100V stillhttp://www.batterycountry.com/ShopSite/specialty-cell.html

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 06:02:17 am
content: New fad of the decade will be licking capacitors... they pack quite a punch.

author: karoru
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 06:08:28 am
content: Quote from: crispy_tofu on October 20, 2015, 06:02:17 amThe new organic bleeding resistor?

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 03:22:32 pm
content: I have licked many a 9 volt battery and on one occasion a 22 volt hearing aid battery, they taste a bit like lemon or acidic with a strong metallic after-taste.It is a very good quick method of battery checking. I have a friend though who pissed on an electric fence, somewhere between 9 and 12 KV That floored him knew some else who licked a tractor magneto, that burnt a black spot on his tongue.