On 30/03/2021 05:18, jon wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:32:04 +0100, soup wrote:

Many have had a 'belt' from domestic 240Volt wiring through bad luck,
bad judgment or plain stupidity .
Whilst a shock from 240V CAN kill how often does that actually happen
and how many just get thrown across the room into a foetal position
whimpering and crying until the arm unknots and the tingling feeling
goes away.

I was sitting on a quarry tiled kitchen floor connecting up a cooker. My
understanding was the the supply was isolated, that quickly got revised
when I tried to strip off the insulation of a live 10mm2 feed with
uninsulated side cutters.

Last time it happened to me I was sitting on te floor trying to work out
why a brand new desk lamp didn't work. I had been through several cycles
of 'switch off at the wall, take apart, change rebuild, switch on at the
wall, test. and at one point I must have forgotten the 'switch off at wall'

I think it was hand to hand but one wasn't grasping anything just touching


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"And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch".

Gospel of St. Mathew 15:14