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Jon

declared for all the world to hear...
On 18 May, 12:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
405 TD Estate wrote:
On a more serious note I need to put a shaving socket in the bathroom
- I assume this is just a straight 240v supply to the socket?

Yes, but the socket itself contains an isolation transformer.

Aah OK So that limits potential current right... yet voltage is still
at 240.

I have read in several places that it takes only a few milliamps to
kill you and it is the voltage which is required to start using your
body as a short so how is this safer? It's a question i'm not having a
go or anything.

Put it this way if I had to touch either a 12v car battery with 300A
available or 240v with (say) 1/2 A available in a wet bathroom I know
which i'd go for (12v!)

300A at 12v would leave you with very nasty burns, assuming you survived
at all.

I'd go for the 240v with .5 amps. Bit of a jolt, nothing more.
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Regards
Jon