Posted on 07/15/2013 9:40:56 AM PDT by topher
Apple said Monday it would investigate claims that a Chinese woman was killed by an electric shock she received when answering a call while the device was charging.
The claim quickly drew attention after a woman in the western region of Xinjiang wrote about the death of her 23-year-old sister Ma Ailun on China's popular microblog service Sina Weibo.
"We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter," said Apple's Beijing-based spokeswoman Carolyn Wu, offering condolences to the family.
So what voltage are they wired at? What is the voltage rating of the CAT5 cable. The math should not be limited to only amperage. I am a registered professional electrical engineer specialized in power systems. I correct mistakes made by electricians all the time.
The amount of money save over using #14 AWG is what $20?
You’re preaching to the choir.
I just know this guy and he likes to do things HIS way and whenever he can save five cents he will. This family is an interesting study for me. Almost everything they eat is off their own property. They slaughter and process their own meat, including pork sausage. They home school their three kids, the youngest of which is 13 now.
They drive two beater cars that I would not trust to carry me ten miles. They live on almost zero income. They are exactly the kind of “middle class” family you would expect to find in appalacia.
They like me being in the “family band” because I am a good experience for their kids and I like it because they are enlightening to me as well. Oh, and their main source of income is selling raw milk and cheese and some eggs.
They built their own house and barns, and you don’t need building permits out here. I doubt VERY seriously they have insurance of any kind.
BTW, his specialty is solar power. ;-)
CAT 5 wire for 110 volt of ANY wattage is not worth it for me. It makes zero sense. I leave him to do whatever he wants, though.
It is your call to knowingly participate and consider it okay.
These guys do all sorts of stuff like this and never complete the task, if you get my drift. It was pretty comical to see a big fat electrical cord end in a heavy duty four outlet electrical box with two switches and two cat five plugs. It would be “fun” to plug your computer into one of them, which brings up another problem with this. ;-)
If you go with them and participate where this wiring is used, that point is now.
So what voltage are they wired at?
But when I saw they were regular light bulbs and 150 watts each, I thought, WTF!!!
If he ever tries to actually use them, I’ll get a bit more serious about it. The simple reason is that, as one person said, if I’m part of the group that brings these things into a venue and they burn the place down, my life could get more interestinger. ;-)
It was pretty amazing that he actually DID wire it that way, though.
Come to think of it, I remember using speaker wire in the ceiling of my house about 34 years ago to wire up a three bulb track lighting thingee. I should check to see if that house is still there.
Wikipedia says 230 V 50 HZ. Apparently Great Britain had 240 V and Northern Ireland had 220 V, so 230 V was guanteed to make everyone unhappy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
I think the issue is a possible fault in the transformer.
Lots of stuff "works just fine" but is so unsafe to be quite stupid.
I used to include one of these each month in my department meetings to see who could site the Code Violations.
If you go with them and participate where this wiring is used, that point is now.
They all look pretty safe to me. ;-)
Those pictures are all hilarious!
I looked up Cat5 on Wikipedia and it shows for AWG24 a max current of .577A per conductor. If he wired it quadrifilar with no daisy chaining of lights, that would give a max current of 2.3A which should? supply one 150watt light.
Not that I would of done it.
Sadly, they are only a few of hundreds...
Sadly, they are only a few of hundreds...
I remember playing at a gig and we had a terrible hum in the PA. It was because the main mixer was on one electrical circuit and the stage power was on another. I think you know the fix: one of those three prong to two prong adaptors. And boy did I get a lot of grief from electricians at Harmony-central for using one of those.
Couple that with the fact that I am also a vocalist in the band, and it speaks to why I use a wireless pickup on my bass. ;-)
If I was to ever put 110 volts on CAT5 it would be fused at 1/100 of an amp.
For the record, Cat5 uses 24-26ga. conductors. Was he using one conductor per bulb? That's what the original comment sounded like to me.
cmon it was a joke! sheesh
“No mention of whether it’s an Apple charger or some knock-off charger. “
Is there a difference in China?
I’ve been wet with sweat(imagine that here in Texas)and have gotten a pretty good “tingle” from an auto battery.The path the electricity takes through your body has much do do with lethality, too. There have been instances where people have had arms virtually burned off by transmission lines and lived.60ma could be fatal, IMHO, the voltage would have to be pretty high. AC current is more aggressive in terms of shock, anyway in most of the applications we deal with.
Thanks. I usually work with stuff like 500 kcmil, 12.47kV.
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