220/240V shocks hurt like all hell, and it kind of "reverberates" in your affected limb long after. The auditory experience is also quite strange. You can hear the 50hz, but it's more like an "understanding" of the sound than actually hearing it. Very weird.
If you grabbed the two spoons with both hands, you probably would have had a worse outcome. One hand touching both terminals hurts, but will likely not kill. When that current comes close to your heart you'll have trouble.
The fact that neither of them didn't shock you individually is likely because you were insulated from the ground. You had shoes or clothing on or something. If you had skin touching the ground, bad news again. I had a fridge that had broken down motor insulation or something, and it kept tripping the earth leakage. I had no money to replace it, so I cut the earth wire in the plug. Problem solved. Just made a note to not open the fridge while barefoot. Eventually I got round to getting rid of it thankfully.
The common advice when working on something dodgy is to put one hand in your pocket. That way a shock will give you ample warning to back off before killing you. Unless it's DC - that stuff scares me. My old solar installation had a 550VOC DC potential, and I stayed the fuck away from that. I have 0 problems working on domestic AC, but not solar DC!
If you grabbed the two spoons with both hands, you probably would have had a worse outcome. One hand touching both terminals hurts, but will likely not kill. When that current comes close to your heart you'll have trouble.
The fact that neither of them didn't shock you individually is likely because you were insulated from the ground. You had shoes or clothing on or something. If you had skin touching the ground, bad news again. I had a fridge that had broken down motor insulation or something, and it kept tripping the earth leakage. I had no money to replace it, so I cut the earth wire in the plug. Problem solved. Just made a note to not open the fridge while barefoot. Eventually I got round to getting rid of it thankfully.
The common advice when working on something dodgy is to put one hand in your pocket. That way a shock will give you ample warning to back off before killing you. Unless it's DC - that stuff scares me. My old solar installation had a 550VOC DC potential, and I stayed the fuck away from that. I have 0 problems working on domestic AC, but not solar DC!