Electrocuted from dvd player

[Generator]

Incredible! you actually touched one pole (neutral) with one hand and the live with the other! - that's the perfect way to commit suicide!
The current would pass straight across your chest - where your heart is. Fortunately dry skin has quite a high resistance, so limiting the current, but it came close to being lethal! About 100 milliamp is sufficient for a fatal shock. Get yourself checked anyway.
And remember the electricians rule - always keep one hand in your pocket!

 

[kingeri]

Electrocuted and electrocution (electricity/execution) also can mean a non fatal electric shock.

Only by people who are perverting the word's correct and original meaning.

 

[alasdairp]

ps
its not 240 any more it changed years ago inline with Europe
from the old 240 V +/-6%
to 230 +10% or -6% now

Except almost everywhere the DNOs still deliver 240 to 245 volts as there was no requirement to actually change transformer tappings (etc). So equipment is designed to have 230 volts and we still supply 240+ volts in most cases. OK for electronic SMPS equipment, but hard on motors and immersion heaters and electric cooker rings. When I lived in Cambridgshire, we regulary got 255 volts+ (which killed a few DVD players and other things) due to a new local 36 MW straw burning generator connected into an inadequate 33 kV substation. The generator just upped its output voltage to get rid of its generation. It took me 5 years of applying heavyweight pressure for the substation to be ugraded (it cost over £2M!). It seems wrong that medium-sized private renewable generators have the right to make local DNOs take their power. I am told over-voltage is becoming much more of a problem in some areas because of this. Large schemes have to negotiate with National Grid, but small and medium ones don't.

 

[alasdairp]

I can't see how to delete this blank reply box - I got a second one for some reason.