-----Original Message----- From: Camille Good [ mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:56 AM To: emc-pstc mailinglist Subject: Re: Is one-handed electrical shock possible?
This is going off on a bit of a tangent to your question, but . . . if you are remembering an account of a child playing with a hairpin (or other moderately flexible piece of metal) and a live electrical socket and getting injured, the injury may have been a burn injury and not a shock injury. If the child was able to stick both ends of the metal into the hot and neutral openings at the same time, it would create a short and the metal would get very hot very quickly. I bring this up because my father told me once that he had done exactly that when he was about 4 or 5 years old with a 120 V socket and a hairpin and he received a pretty painful burn before he could yank his hand away. He also said there was a scorch mark on the socket and the surrounding wall for quite a while after that, so apparently the hairpin got quite hot. -Camille This may be drifting too far, but......... My mother confirms that my first experience with regulatory compliance came when I was 3 years old. My father had installed spring-loaded, rotating covers on every outlet in our home (I wonder what prompted that?), thus "child-proofing" the exposed twin-blade, ungrounded power outlets. Moments after completing the job, I demonstrated how to rotate the cap and insert a key into an outlet. Ed Ed Price [email protected] WB6WSN NARTE Certified EMC Engineer & Technician Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab Cubic Defense Applications San Diego, CA USA 858-505-2780 (Voice) 858-505-1583 (Fax) Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
