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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:

    The voltage will be whatever is required to cause the required test current to flow, whether it be 24V or 240V will depend upon the resistance of the current path which in this case is from the left hand to feet.  Ohms law basically.


    The electric eel kills quickly and efficiently at a potential difference of 240v.

    If mother nature had supplied an electric eel with a potential difference of 24v or even 2.4v, it would have to spend its' entire life chasing the same fish around the ocean floor trying to tickle it to death!


    Or:


    Imagine the human body as a resistance; what happens when you supply a 110v lamp with 230v?


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    Rob Eagle:

    The voltage will be whatever is required to cause the required test current to flow, whether it be 24V or 240V will depend upon the resistance of the current path which in this case is from the left hand to feet.  Ohms law basically.


    The electric eel kills quickly and efficiently at a potential difference of 240v.

    If mother nature had supplied an electric eel with a potential difference of 24v or even 2.4v, it would have to spend its' entire life chasing the same fish around the ocean floor trying to tickle it to death!


    Or:


    Imagine the human body as a resistance; what happens when you supply a 110v lamp with 230v?


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