Posted on 12/10/2020 10:11:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
A 24-year-old Russian woman was electrocuted when her charging iPhone fell into the water as she was taking a bath, according to a report.
Olesya Semenova’s lifeless body was found by her roommate in their apartment in Arkhangelsk, East2West News reported.
“I screamed, shook her, but she was pale, did not breathe and showed no signs of life,” Daria told the emergency operator. “I was really scared. When I touched her, I got an electric shock.” She added that she found Semenova’s iPhone 8 in the water — still charging.
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240 v. Only US uses 120V. Pity. We could kill off idiots faster with a less safe household voltage.
Who in their right mind takes an electrical device into the bath with them?
Apparently some 24 year old Russian dumbo.
I hope at least she makes this year's Darwin Awards.
What if she had a heart condition or the like?
Who was the medium that conveyed this message from the dead?
Nope, only 5 volts. I suspect it was the converter plugged into an extension cord.
No it would not blow any breaker the current needed to kill her was a fraction of an amp. Not 15- 20 amps. The idea that if you throw an extension cord in water then it will spark and blow a “Fuse” is pure Hollywood. Completely fictional. Only a fraction of an amp is produced by that procedure.
But yes extension cords can be bad in this situation because they are sometimes designed so that the charger can be plugged in with two main prongs reversed. This allows what is supposed to be the neutral side of the charger to become hot.
The roommate claimed the roommate received a shock from the phone.
Depends what was in the water. Pure water is a poor conductor but bath salts or any sort of electrolyte makes it a great conductor.
Chargers (wall warts) typically have no polarity - both prongs are the same size, not different sizes, and they generally do not possess a grounded conductor, so they can be plugged in any which way. Since they typically consist of a full wave rectifier and a transformer, it doesn’t matter which side is hot. The same cannot be said of extension cords, although the “big” side (neutral side) of the plug and the corresponding “big” side of the socket on the cord should be connected rather than switched. Crossover in the US would fail licensing, can’t speak for Russia. And, finally, the house wiring would violate code in the US if it crossed the conductors - again, can’t speak for Russia.
Actually, I think most of Europe etc uses 220.
My statements were accurate. And you don’t understand how modern switching power supply’s work. They do not have an isolation transformer. This should help you to understand.
It starts out with a traditional power supply and then goes into switching power supply’s. Notice that the input and output share a common leg.
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/power/switch-mode-power-supply.html
Russia's home power (like most of Europe) is 230 vac, single leg to ground...at 50Hz.
is that combination potentially more lethal for the heart than,say,120 vac @60Hz...? How so?
Dreadful. RIP.
50 or 60... Your heart has a hard time beating 50 or 60 times a second. It would rather just take a time out at that point. LOL
Amperage is what cooks or burns holes through you, but even low amperage can kill because the electrical system of the heart can get interrupted.
Hahahaha
Now we’re getting ridiculous.
She could have taken a bath in distilled water? You are right, pure water don’t conduct well.
Exactly- any outside induced electrical current.
When I was learning to work inside of electrical panels, I was taught to always, as much as possible, work with only one hand at a time inside the panel...to avoid the possibility of a shock through the heart.
Never forgot that-
Tub water generally won’t throw a circuit breaker @ 120v. Doubtful at 240v.
A circuit breaker without gfci will not trip on current imbalance. Additionally gfci depends on there being a better grounding of the tub, than the neutral on the cord (assuming L and neutral only for Russian iPhone chargers).
You can run a hairdryer in the tub water in the states with gfci, as long as the drain is ungrounded.
Case in point: humidifiers. You have to salt the water decently in that little tank before the line potential can deliver enough power to boil the water.
The electric field gradient the in water actually causes the electrocution I would guess. Ie. the the voltage potential to ground measured at two points in the water is enough to flow current through the body of the victim.
Right; knew about Anka from years ago
but Bowie only recently.That was from
a chapter called All the Songs in the
book Made Men:The Story of GoodFellas.
(The film ends with Sid Vicious’ cover of My Way)
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