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A 32 year old man died in London back in 2016 doing the same thing.
Teenager dies in bath from a phone?
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I suspect it is more likely the water ingress around the charger itself was the problem and she touched somewhere close enough with all the water to get a mains shock.
(There are very good reasons not to have electric sockets in a bath or shower room after all).
(There are very good reasons not to have electric sockets in a bath or shower room after all).
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I electrocuted myself on one of those disposable cameras you wind up.
What i did was take it apart and touched some copper plate, which AFAIK, discharged the capacitor powering the flash.
Pretty good shock, felt like at least 1 second of continuous discharge.
Anyone here know the voltage/ amps of that so i can compare.
What i did was take it apart and touched some copper plate, which AFAIK, discharged the capacitor powering the flash.
Pretty good shock, felt like at least 1 second of continuous discharge.
Anyone here know the voltage/ amps of that so i can compare.
Voltage is not irrelevant, there is such ignorance of elementary physics in this thread. Voltage determines the current as per Ohm's law, I = V/R. According to your link wet skin has a resistance value of 1,000 ohm, 5V/1000 = 0.005A, well below the 0.1A that causes v-fib and that doesn't even take into account the internal resistance of the body.
What happened here is no doubt some mains extension socket being dropped into the bath.
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I used to be a right headcase as a teenager, and to be honest I'm actually surprised that I survived those years with nowt more than a few minor broken bones and some scrapes and scratches (amongst the worse was gravel in my chin after trying to jump a canal on my Raleigh Mag Burner, that hurt like a ******* bitch). But one thing I never did was take live electrical items into the bath with me.
My guess is that some people are so accustomed to carrying a phone that they don't think about it at all.
A good chance - the design/construction on some of them, especially the cheap ones common in 3rd world parts, is shockingly bad.
Even if you'd spelt it right, it wouldn't have been funny.
Jogg onn...
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That's the exact video I was thinking of when I heard of a girl dying from phone in bath.
You are allowed mains sockets in UK bathrooms I believe, they just need to be far enough away from the bath/shower - I think it's 3 metres. Of course most of us plebs don't have a bath or shower rooms that big.
Young enough not to have not had kids incident totally avoidable... Two big no no's everyone knows about... Fire and fuel, driving and texting, electricity and water... Perfect Darwin candidate ...
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Quite a lot of the Chinese "wall warts" are truly astonishingly badly made and a plain fire / shock hazard, many have no proper low to high voltage isolation, and CE stickers are pence a sheet from all over the show.
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micro or milli Amperes but at about 1kV plus, a charged high voltage capacitor is dangerous but you would be very unlucky to die from a shock from a camera flash gun the cap will have little stored energy per se. Cattle electric fences are 5kV plus but a short extremely low amperage pulse. You know you've been bitten but you'll live to know not to touch it again
The real killers are high voltage DC supplies like some big RF amplifiers run. I have a 6kV at 2 Amp DC supply, not only would you almost certainly die, you would also suffer pretty appalling burns and flesh damage. It's volts that jolts but it's lots of volts with lots of mills that kills. A 12V car battery can supply up to a thousand amps but you can hold both terminals and feel nothing. Half an Amp at 500V DC can certainly kill if you are unlucky or have a weak ticker.