Soldato
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A 32 year old man died in London back in 2016 doing the same thing.
https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html
Voltage is irrelevant when it comes to being electrocuted and all that matters is if the current can pass through your heart and having wet skin makes it more likely to happen
Teenagers are renouned for risk taking, not thinking of the consequences of their actions etc but i'm sure it's not just teenagers who have made such mistakes
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.
Probably a cheap knock off charger with poor seperation between the mains input and charging output. Delivered mains voltage up the charging wire.
Truely shocking...
Jogg onn...Even if you'd spelt it right, it wouldn't have been funny.
I'm pretty sure that's nonsense:
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.Most countries appear to allow sockets in bathrooms. It's the UK that's unusual (for good reasons IMO).
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 ...Who are 'they'? Accidents happen all the time, why have you deemed this particlar girl deserving of your award?
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.
Probably a cheap knock off charger with poor seperation between the mains input and charging output. Delivered mains voltage up the charging wire.
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.