Re: Buying new power cables
Originally Posted by tonrob
(Post 11054680)
I've bought and wired my own plugs in the US too. Piece of piss. Sometimes I like to do it while stood in a bucket of water for extra spice.
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:eek: wow better you than me.
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Originally Posted by markuhde
(Post 11060102)
I REALLY hope that was a GFCI-protected circuit! Or just a staged photo. Otherwise, a couple people could be winning the Darwin Award :(
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Originally Posted by Nutek
(Post 11060106)
I'm assuming it's fake, but it makes me laugh either way. :)
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Originally Posted by markuhde
(Post 11060102)
I REALLY hope that was a GFCI-protected circuit! Or just a staged photo. Otherwise, a couple people could be winning the Darwin Award :(
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Originally Posted by markuhde
(Post 11060108)
Indeed! I trust GFCI's more than the UK government does (yay for not being able to use a hairdryer in the bathroom :ohmy: ), but not quite enough to try THAT.
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It is not the water that conducts electricity but the stuff in it like salts etc or the salts on your skin.
I used to live in a city that if you took regular tap water and hooked up battery and lamp and placed the leads in the water it would not conduct and light the lamp. |
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Originally Posted by mwdake
(Post 11060538)
It is not the water that conducts electricity but the stuff in it like salts etc or the salts on your skin.
I used to live in a city that if you took regular tap water and hooked up battery and lamp and placed the leads in the water it would not conduct and light the lamp. Regardless, NO ONE would call this a bright idea, so let's all just get a laugh from it and move on :) As for a conventional socket in a UK bathroom - how? Every one I've ever seen is transformer-isolated low current. Which strikes me as stupid, to be honest - it's no safer than a GFCI yet is very limiting in usefulness. But UK electrical code is very strict - you can't even have a light switch in a bathroom. It has to either be in the ceiling on a pull cord or outside the bathroom where your little cousins turn it on and off while you're in the shower (okay, that probably just happens to me). |
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Originally Posted by md95065
(Post 11054722)
You probably want to avoid these :eek:
I had not realized that the insanity surrounding ridiculously over priced audio and video cables had also been seen as a "marketing opportunity" for power cords ... :ohmy:
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Originally Posted by markuhde
(Post 11060551)
As for a conventional socket in a UK bathroom - how?
Every one I've ever seen is transformer-isolated low current. Which strikes me as stupid, to be honest - it's no safer than a GFCI yet is very limiting in usefulness. There are arguments that the IEE has overegged the regs, particularly with pex plumbing rather changing the arguments. |
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Originally Posted by lizzyq
(Post 11060818)
....by being more than three metres from the safety protection zones around the sink, shower and tub. Like I said though, how many UK bathrooms are big enough?
It's safer, because it isolates you from earth, so it's better than a gfci which would still pass many mA for a few milliseconds in the event of a fault. There are arguments that the IEE has overegged the regs, particularly with pex plumbing rather changing the arguments. 2. Well, I think you mean it isolates you from the power source, isolation from the earth isn't exactly what's needed. But yeah, that's the argument. Reality is - GFCI's are very very safe and and transformer isolated sockets are very very safe. To get caught up in "well, is transformer isolation a wee bit safer?" The answer is - it may be, a tiny bit. But at the expense of massive inconvenience. No electricity at all would be far safer, but we pay the price for the convenience electricity brings us. |
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Originally Posted by markuhde
(Post 11060847)
2. Well, I think you mean it isolates you from the power source, isolation from the earth isn't exactly what's needed.
Sorry, that last post shouldn't have been from my wife ;-) |
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Originally Posted by steveq
(Post 11060885)
Isolation from earth means that since the source floats, you can't get a shock from it to ground. You can still get a shock rail to rail, even with an isolating transformer - and a GFCI wouldn't save you from a shock either.
Sorry, that last post shouldn't have been from my wife ;-) |
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