On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:34:42 +0000, T i m wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 18:10:48 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

In theory they are of course unsafe if a child unscrews a bulb,

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Or worse, a child used to dabbling with wires and stripping them with
their teeth, puts both ends of the broken light loop in their mouth.

And of course they were still plugged in and turned on ... ;-(

It threw me back across the room but I did live to learn a valuable
lesson. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I had a similar experience with a neighbours door bell transformer at
the age of 11 or 12. I assumed the bell wire I was attempting to
strip with my teeth was connected to the secondary side. It wasn't.




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Graham.

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