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Uncle fester.
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
If the live side makes contact first you have an issue though. Because then the path to ground passes through the fork, up the handle and through you. Then your muscles tense and you might not make the neutral side connect the other end fork anymore.
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Fuses protect wires in the walls, not what you plug into the socket.
If the tine in the neutral socket makes contact before live, it'll probably just pop the fuse. Hot first, and you better hope it's a GFCI.
wrote last edited by [email protected]So, we are a bit trollish today. I'll match the mood.
In your basic euro socket the safety latches don't open unless you poke both holes at the same time.
If you cut two middle spikes of a fork and manage to shove it in the socket, you'll just short the phase to the neutral and blow a fuse. You'll be part of a partial circuit and feel it, but most of the current will favor the direct "fork connection".
If you are in the United States of Dumbfuckistan and only have 120Vac in the socket, considering surface area of contact to the fork, you'll probably only get little over 20mA running through you. It'll take a long time to get a respiratory arrest. You'll probably get bored and detach yourself by leaning back. Heart complications may still follow.
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If the live side makes contact first you have an issue though. Because then the path to ground passes through the fork, up the handle and through you. Then your muscles tense and you might not make the neutral side connect the other end fork anymore.
But if you don't actually complete the circuit to ground, then current cannot actually pass through you, only voltage. You'll feel a tingling. See if you can turn on an LED by connecting its ground lead to your carpet or tile floor.
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But if you don't actually complete the circuit to ground, then current cannot actually pass through you, only voltage. You'll feel a tingling. See if you can turn on an LED by connecting its ground lead to your carpet or tile floor.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
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Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
No, dude, I'm saying if you don't completed the circuit, there's only potential. You'll only feel the changing potential as a tingling. Only when finally you take your shoes off and step on a wet steel bar that is buried into humid earth then you only then will your circuit be closed and all the various resistances you mentioned come into play. Else you will need two forks, one for each hand.
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Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
Oh maybe you don't live in the US....our homes are made of wood and drywall. We literally never touch ground unless it's a basement or a restroom connected with copper tubing.
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But if you don't actually complete the circuit to ground, then current cannot actually pass through you, only voltage. You'll feel a tingling. See if you can turn on an LED by connecting its ground lead to your carpet or tile floor.
Well seems to me you do complete the circuit. With some 1000 Ohm resistance of your body, plus shoes depending on whether you're wearing them and how you're posed, plus whatever your floor provides to ground. Tile sounds ideal, but I'm not so sure about wood.
I guess floor heating would not be using metal piping, so at least that's no shortcut. Maybe rebar could be trouble, but probably the wooden flooring shouldn't be resting directly on the rebar.
I guess in most normal situations that would be enough resistance. I concede that point.
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Well seems to me you do complete the circuit. With some 1000 Ohm resistance of your body, plus shoes depending on whether you're wearing them and how you're posed, plus whatever your floor provides to ground. Tile sounds ideal, but I'm not so sure about wood.
I guess floor heating would not be using metal piping, so at least that's no shortcut. Maybe rebar could be trouble, but probably the wooden flooring shouldn't be resting directly on the rebar.
I guess in most normal situations that would be enough resistance. I concede that point.
Both tile and wood are insulators unless wet with an ionic liquid. And even wet you must reach a path to ground.
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So, we are a bit trollish today. I'll match the mood.
In your basic euro socket the safety latches don't open unless you poke both holes at the same time.
If you cut two middle spikes of a fork and manage to shove it in the socket, you'll just short the phase to the neutral and blow a fuse. You'll be part of a partial circuit and feel it, but most of the current will favor the direct "fork connection".
If you are in the United States of Dumbfuckistan and only have 120Vac in the socket, considering surface area of contact to the fork, you'll probably only get little over 20mA running through you. It'll take a long time to get a respiratory arrest. You'll probably get bored and detach yourself by leaning back. Heart complications may still follow.
凸(｀⌒´メ)凸
I wrote that after a six hour flight after a two day bender of a wedding. Didn't even realize it was a euro plug lol.
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You could with a corn fork:
https://www.amazon.com/Messar-Stainless-Holders-Storage-Skewers/dp/B07S1VWSNK -
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And, yeah, it cost $12.99: https://web.archive.org/web/20070406173550/http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/lebedev.shtml
Would that even do much? Apart from frying your hand.
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I wrote that after a six hour flight after a two day bender of a wedding. Didn't even realize it was a euro plug lol.
Very understandable.
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Thanks that means better connect one at the finger and one at the leg. Got it! /s
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I did that as a (stupid) kid. I did obviously survive. But it was one of the few sockets that wasn't really protected with fuses, so the result was a power-outage for the whole street, and a few guys with fancy protective clothing (against high-voltage) came to fix this...
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My dipfuck younger brother once stuck some chicken wire in an outlet, and scared the shit out of himself. I had acquired the chicken wire in order to make a turtle trap, that ended up working too well.
