voltage

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 14:50 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Friday, September 17, 2010 02:31 PM, Doug wrote:
> > On 9/17/2010 1:39 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > /snip/
> >>> Hence the part about the battery in the thing. Or maybe I am not using
> >>> it properly. One day I am going to get zapped.
> >>
> >> Heh, I got hit daily with 220, and I'm OK. :) Ric
> >> <ZOT!>
> >>
> >
> > This, unfortunately, is not funny.  My best man was killed in his house
> > by 115 VAC.  He was standing barefoot on a heat-vent, and changing a
> > record or something on his hi-fi system.  Apparently there was a hot
> > chassis in the hi-fi system.  When he did not report for work at his
> > father's shop, the father went to the house and found him, far too late.
> > He left a wife and a little boy about two. RIP, Ron.
> >
> 
> Most sorry to hear about Ron. Condolences to his wife and son. However, 
> Hong Kong has long gone with three pin wiring. Why is it that you still 
> have unearthed wiring nowadays!?

Some people have zero tolerance for the juice. I'm sorry to hear your
friend was killed. As a kid I used to put paper-clips into wall sockets
just to feel the buzz. I've always had a very high tolerance for
electricity, yet I still respect it. I've got a bushel basket of
screwdrivers with the tips blown off, so I am well aware of it's power.
Why we limit our protection to ground-fault interrupter codes to
bathrooms is beyond me. 

But, in your friend's case, it almost sounds like the line cord or the
wall socket was wired backwards, to have gotten shocked by the chassis.
His family may wish to check and then sue the dickens out of whoever did
it.  Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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