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Reitan · 19th November 2005, 12:59 PM

I worked on clothes washers and dryers for about 3 years, and I got shocked a couple times a week the whole time. I had screwdrivers accidentally welded through because I touched them to the frame (grounded) while I was jumping switches and the like. But one day I went to a laundry room where a washer drain got plugged up, and there was water abot 1/2 inch deep over the entire floor. I fixed the drain, but the washer wouldn't turn on. So I checked it out, and ended up removing the rear panel from the machine to check the wiring. I got down on my knees to look into the machine, and I saw a tiny little wire had shaken off the motor, so of course I had to reach in and reattatch it-big mistake! I've been shocked hundreds of times, but never straight-up electrocuted. I heard, and felt, a loud whaaaaaghnt sound as 120 volts discharged to ground from my fingers to my feet. Aside from a few minutes of uncontrollable shaking, my only injuries were incurred during my reflexive rapid exit from the washing machine. My co-worker could't stop laughing and over the next couple weeks he kept demanding that I re-demonstrate it for him. Yeah,right.....

**Nigel Goodwin** · 19th November 2005, 01:05 PM

Lucky it was only a 'girly' 120V :lol:

moody07747 · 20th November 2005, 08:31 PM

sounds like something for mythbusters...

im an electrician
if you stick 2 live wires in a tank of water and stick your finger in there there is a 90% chance youll die from shock but with those GFCI cord products it is nearly impossable as mythbusters showed

electricity will seek the shortest path to ground so if you're touching a water faucet or something (which is grounded at the main) you will get a nasty shock

danielsmusic · 21st November 2005, 01:43 AM

so realy the best place to sit in a bath its at the shallow end? if anything dropped in the electricity would pass to the plug. unless it dropped on you!

**Nigel Goodwin** · 21st November 2005, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by danielsmusic

so realy the best place to sit in a bath its at the shallow end? if anything dropped in the electricity would pass to the plug. unless it dropped on you!

NO, you die regardless!.

But this can't possibly happen in the UK, legislation doesn't allow the fitting of power sockets in bathrooms, with the exception of a fully isolated shaver socket.

Only a complete moron would run an extension mains lead into a bathroom, and the gene pool would be better off without those sort of genes anyway 8)

MrMikey83 · 22nd November 2005, 09:18 PM

I said no. After you put the wires into the bowl of water, they would rpobably short out and trip the circuit breaker. Breaker trips and no more electricity. Water is safe for hands.
I wouldn't try this myself though. lol
~Mike

Ricardoco · 23rd November 2005, 10:34 AM

Well i have a marine fish tank and the standd was high, so i had to use a chair to get up and feed the fish, i had to put my hand in the water to feed the inverts and all was fine until one day i got on the chair with bare feet and boom!!!

When i investigated the tank there had been an exposed 240v live wire in the tank on one of the pumps it had been there for months.

Lucky not to be dead i rekon...

lord loh. · 24th November 2005, 08:28 AM

Distilled water does not conduct electricity.

But human body is 70% water and it surely is not distilled. S0 water in the body might act as an electr0lite. And the act of dippin gyour finger in the bowl might add salts to it.

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19th November 2005, 12:59 PM	(permalink)
Reitan	I worked on clothes washers and dryers for about 3 years, and I got shocked a couple times a week the whole time. I had screwdrivers accidentally welded through because I touched them to the frame (grounded) while I was jumping switches and the like. But one day I went to a laundry room where a washer drain got plugged up, and there was water abot 1/2 inch deep over the entire floor. I fixed the drain, but the washer wouldn't turn on. So I checked it out, and ended up removing the rear panel from the machine to check the wiring. I got down on my knees to look into the machine, and I saw a tiny little wire had shaken off the motor, so of course I had to reach in and reattatch it-big mistake! I've been shocked hundreds of times, but never straight-up electrocuted. I heard, and felt, a loud whaaaaaghnt sound as 120 volts discharged to ground from my fingers to my feet. Aside from a few minutes of uncontrollable shaking, my only injuries were incurred during my reflexive rapid exit from the washing machine. My co-worker could't stop laughing and over the next couple weeks he kept demanding that I re-demonstrate it for him. Yeah,right..... __________________ If I really knew what I was talking about, I wouldn\'t be here.

19th November 2005, 01:05 PM	(permalink)
Nigel Goodwin	Lucky it was only a 'girly' 120V :lol: __________________ PIC programmer software, and PIC Tutorials at: http://www.winpicprog.co.uk

20th November 2005, 08:31 PM	(permalink)
moody07747	sounds like something for mythbusters... im an electrician if you stick 2 live wires in a tank of water and stick your finger in there there is a 90% chance youll die from shock but with those GFCI cord products it is nearly impossable as mythbusters showed electricity will seek the shortest path to ground so if you're touching a water faucet or something (which is grounded at the main) you will get a nasty shock __________________ Dave www.myspace.com/sonicorbstudios Welcome to "Sonic Orb Studios"

21st November 2005, 01:43 AM	(permalink)
danielsmusic	so realy the best place to sit in a bath its at the shallow end? if anything dropped in the electricity would pass to the plug. unless it dropped on you! __________________ when you post that reply, im just kidding.

22nd November 2005, 09:18 PM	(permalink)
MrMikey83	I said no. After you put the wires into the bowl of water, they would rpobably short out and trip the circuit breaker. Breaker trips and no more electricity. Water is safe for hands. I wouldn't try this myself though. lol ~Mike __________________ All Electronic components run on smoke. Let the smoke out and it no longer works. ~Tim Baker (Electronics Instructor at John A. Logan College)

23rd November 2005, 10:34 AM	(permalink)
Ricardoco	Well i have a marine fish tank and the standd was high, so i had to use a chair to get up and feed the fish, i had to put my hand in the water to feed the inverts and all was fine until one day i got on the chair with bare feet and boom!!! When i investigated the tank there had been an exposed 240v live wire in the tank on one of the pumps it had been there for months. Lucky not to be dead i rekon... __________________ In the game of life the fact is, everyone loses, but I sure enjoy playing. ....Asking many questions could make you appear to be a Master! Just Remember Appearances can often be decieving.

24th November 2005, 08:28 AM	(permalink)
lord loh.	Distilled water does not conduct electricity. But human body is 70% water and it surely is not distilled. S0 water in the body might act as an electr0lite. And the act of dippin gyour finger in the bowl might add salts to it. __________________ Bharath Bhushan Lohray. M.Sc. Electronics.