SleepyDragon wrote:
lau wrote:
... how is everyone with electric shocks?
I am told that as a baby, I pushed a hairpin into an electrical receptacle (North American, 110-135V) and escaped undamaged except for two tiny burn marks on my pinky finger.
I can tell that as an adult, I helped out my cousin by replacing a light bulb. Very old building. (You may be guessing where this is going, soon.) Tall ceilings. Pendant light. I stood on a chair. Took out the old bulb. Started pushing in the new one (we use bayonet fittings, almost exclusively - push and then twist about 5 degrees). To do so, I had the fitting cupped in my hand - above my head still. What I found out later was that where the wire went into the back of the fitting, it was just that - wire. The
rubber insulation had perished and powdered away long ago. My grip had forced both naked wires into solid contact with my finger. The light was one of two in a gloomy corridor. I needed the other one on, to see what I was doing, lacking a torch. You know the joke about "What's black and hangs from the ceiling?" When I got up off the floor, I had escaped undamaged except for two tiny burn marks on my index finger.
Ai Oi!! ! English plumbing, English wiring! Remind me to stay on my side of the pond. When I was working in electronics, my specialty
was switching power supplies and class-D amplifiers. I got zapped many a time whenever I accidentally touched the +/-330 volt DC
"rails".