Date   : Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:12:09 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > 'cos electricity and water don't mix!
> 
> Nope they don't because warter is generally a bad conductor, when pure.
 
It always gets me when I see the classic bathroom dangers cartoon
of a child in a bath with a radio/hairdryer/toaster precariously
balanced at the end. Surely, the easiest route for the electricity
to flow is back out along the neutral? Even if the occupant picks
up the said toaster, to get a shock you'd have to break it open and
touch both incoming and outgoing conductors and prevent the current
flowing through the internal wiring.
 
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