ADS

Coby:

davezawadi (David Stone):

I think you have missed a point Coby. The only way an RCD can trip is to provide an alternative path for current to the line and neutral conductors. So in your example, you would need yourself firmly Earthed by an alternative path, so that the live current did not return via the neutral. Contacting both live conductors (or either with no other path) does not trip an RCD. However, if you contact one conductor and some Earthed item the RCD will trip at about 20mA current which you may not even feel at all. Touching live and neutral at once can still be rather nasty if you are well insulated from Earth.

So you do understand that RCD's do not work indoors and therefore ADS is a myth!

What makes you think that RCDs don't work indoors?


Many years ago, I was living in a student flat.  Someone in a bathroom on the floor above let water spill onto the floor, and it got into the lighting circuit of the flat I was in.  The RCD tripped.

Coby:

davezawadi (David Stone):

I think you have missed a point Coby. The only way an RCD can trip is to provide an alternative path for current to the line and neutral conductors. So in your example, you would need yourself firmly Earthed by an alternative path, so that the live current did not return via the neutral. Contacting both live conductors (or either with no other path) does not trip an RCD. However, if you contact one conductor and some Earthed item the RCD will trip at about 20mA current which you may not even feel at all. Touching live and neutral at once can still be rather nasty if you are well insulated from Earth.

So you do understand that RCD's do not work indoors and therefore ADS is a myth!

What makes you think that RCDs don't work indoors?


Many years ago, I was living in a student flat.  Someone in a bathroom on the floor above let water spill onto the floor, and it got into the lighting circuit of the flat I was in.  The RCD tripped.