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Too Modest

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If it can be demonstrated to the scientific community/press/public at large that "the RCD will trip or nary a tingle will be felt", then CBE's, MBE's, Knighthoods or perhaps a Nobel prize will be sure to follow!


This is surely the biggest step forward in Electrical safety since the invention of fuse wire!


In these bleak times the British public needs to hear good news like this.
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    Rob Eagle:

    Only 2 shocks in you life Mike?  I've lost count, it would top one hundred I guess.  The worse was from the final anode of a colour TV (discharge only), it felt like someone had whacked me around the head with a railway sleeper! 

    Many many shocks developing mains powered devices in my early days as an electronic designer and earlier from the Christmas tree lights every year as a child.

    I remember once, at Christmas, with all the adults still sitting at the table, I used to like making sparks with my 12V train transformer, this day I decided to wire a bit of flex to a 13A plug, plug it in then touch live and neutral together - now that was quite a spark and sent the heeby jeebies down me.

    In school we had collective shocks from both Van de Graff and Wimshurst machines, all part of the curriculum in those day!  I made myself an electrophorus which made nice sparks when charged with polystyrene but when I tried to charge it off the static off the TV screen it sent me flying across the room!

    Ahh, the good old days eh.


    All of this and you still refuse to test your RCD by touching a line conductor?


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    Rob Eagle:

    Only 2 shocks in you life Mike?  I've lost count, it would top one hundred I guess.  The worse was from the final anode of a colour TV (discharge only), it felt like someone had whacked me around the head with a railway sleeper! 

    Many many shocks developing mains powered devices in my early days as an electronic designer and earlier from the Christmas tree lights every year as a child.

    I remember once, at Christmas, with all the adults still sitting at the table, I used to like making sparks with my 12V train transformer, this day I decided to wire a bit of flex to a 13A plug, plug it in then touch live and neutral together - now that was quite a spark and sent the heeby jeebies down me.

    In school we had collective shocks from both Van de Graff and Wimshurst machines, all part of the curriculum in those day!  I made myself an electrophorus which made nice sparks when charged with polystyrene but when I tried to charge it off the static off the TV screen it sent me flying across the room!

    Ahh, the good old days eh.


    All of this and you still refuse to test your RCD by touching a line conductor?


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