[ARC5] [BoatAnchors] 125 VAC Line? Make Your BA's Happy, Cheap.

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Sun Jan 17 01:26:04 EST 2016


It's a Darwin test.  You have to be pretty stupid to get your fingers on 
the pins of the standard 120 VAC male connector.  :-)

And it's "voltage".  "pressure" is force per unit area.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 01/17/2016 00:17:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
kg4kgl at gmail.com writes: 
> >On Jan 17, 2016, at 00:37, Brian Clarke <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au> 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Just as a point of interest, the number of electrocutions through 
> 'playing with' 230 Vac is almost negligible. It is virtually impossible even for 
> idiots to get across the mains - modern connectors make touching live 
> circuitry extremely difficult. This is not the case in the USA.
> 
> What do you mean? It is pretty difficult to get electrocuted by modern 
> connectors here in the US. 
> 
> Robert
> KG4KGL
> 
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