Posted on 02/12/2015 8:39:38 PM PST by Swordmaker
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Russian woman dies after dropping charging iPhone into bathtub
What a shame. She was not guilty. :-(
RIP.
Not good to drop the end of an extension cord or any cord anywhere.
That happened to me in a dry way. I was getting ready for work, I had my phone cell charger plugged in the bathroom outlet. In a rush instead of disconnecting from the outlet I disconnected from he cell and let the cord dropped. The cord instead of dropping down straight it dropped at an angle. As I made my first step forward, I tripped and winded up with blister through out my leg. So be careful folks with cords. I would never keep anything electrical near my shower tub.
most homes in the US have ground fault circuit interrupters “
I would expect that most U.S. homes DON’T actually have GFIs installed. That’s a rather recent code requirement, so only the newer homes have them, and just a few of the older homes where the owners were smart enough to go to the expense of installing them.
So her housemate didn't go in because the power went out because the breaker threw because the iphone/charger/extension cord shorted the circuit.
And, there was no juice in the water when she pulled her friend out, the phone still being in the water.
So what cut the power?
Because if the power wasn't cut, it wasn't the iphone at all that killed her.
I am an electrician... and yes it would.
“Remember that cattle prods and Tasers are powered by anything from two AA cell batteries to a 9 volt battery. “
Tasers emit a very high frequency AC current. And they don’t kill anyway. Phone chargers use a 5-9 volt very low amp DC current akin to a C cell battery. Trying to compare these two is akin to comparing lightening to a lightening bug.
A cop fried a kid in fort worth with a taser. She applied the juice for 45 seconds.
Unlikely that Russian building codes call for GFCI’s in “wet” locations like here in the US
Most likely that was the reason. Russian bathrooms don't have wall sockets because of the building regulations. The original article in Russian also says the cord's insulation was damaged.
That was an Iphone 4 which current Russian street price equals $200 for the 4 Gb version.
You're thinking of George Westinghouse, not Nikola Tesla. And AC was more, not less, dangerous, at least according to Edison.
Westinghouse was promoting AC power distribution and was winning over Edison because AC is technically superior in that application. Edison had implemented some of the very earliest electric utilities, and they were DC-based.
However, AC is indeed more dangerous to humans. Hence, Edison tried to coin the transitive verb "to westinghouse", meaning "to electrocute". And, indeed, all implementations of Old Sparky have been AC-powered. As are all modern power grids.
Perhaps bath salts in the water could have added to the conductivity of the water.
Another example of Darwin at work...
The most dangerous current to humans is the one you are working with! Either can kill you under the right circumstances.
Just for general background...the reason AC is used is that transmission losses are proportional to the *square* of the *current*. AC can be transformed to high voltage/low current at one end and back to a more usable low voltage/high current at the other end. Transformers don’t work with DC...
Yep. Only possibility is if charger was on extension cord and that got pulled into the tub.
Seriously!
Hey y’all, watch this!
Dont Russian iPhones weigh 73 kilograms and contain 2 car batteries? Or am I thinking of Soviet cell phones...
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