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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.

     


    Well, no, like you,  rather more than 2 shocks, just those 2 that I consider near fatal as opposed to just a warning nip and a few choice phrases uttered .  Not sure how many probably not 100, but  a few per decade.


    Oddly not during intentional live working (of which I have done rather more than would probably be approved, such as odd light switch swaps with the lights on and so forth.)


    Quite a few back EMF tingles from 28V relays and things, car ignition, oh  and the odd electric fence while camping, and back indoors dropping one TV tube having scuffed the EHT sucker point. That was very memorable from an instant of panic, but luckily it landed intact ,and worked ok after a re-focus.


    Not so many mains shocks, though I have been bitten by a hot water tank external thermostat where the bimetallic element is exposed when it is not on the tank and it is the part of the moving live contact... nasty design that one, and wet  cables outdoors.

    I'm sure many of us are the same.

    Mike.


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    Rob Eagle:

    Only 2 shocks in you life Mike?  I've lost count, it would top one hundred I guess.

     


    Well, no, like you,  rather more than 2 shocks, just those 2 that I consider near fatal as opposed to just a warning nip and a few choice phrases uttered .  Not sure how many probably not 100, but  a few per decade.


    Oddly not during intentional live working (of which I have done rather more than would probably be approved, such as odd light switch swaps with the lights on and so forth.)


    Quite a few back EMF tingles from 28V relays and things, car ignition, oh  and the odd electric fence while camping, and back indoors dropping one TV tube having scuffed the EHT sucker point. That was very memorable from an instant of panic, but luckily it landed intact ,and worked ok after a re-focus.


    Not so many mains shocks, though I have been bitten by a hot water tank external thermostat where the bimetallic element is exposed when it is not on the tank and it is the part of the moving live contact... nasty design that one, and wet  cables outdoors.

    I'm sure many of us are the same.

    Mike.


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