Warning over DIY Tragedy

Discussion in 'Electricians' Talk' started by ChubbyPhaseWire, Jun 27, 2004.

  1. ChubbyPhaseWire

    ChubbyPhaseWire New Member

    Just reading a story in a local newspaper that someone has sent to me.

    The anguished family of the father-of-five electrocuted trying to..........
    The last paragraph tells us that........... died in similar circumstances..

    Just remember everyone that a accident always happens to someone else.
     
  2. plugwash

    plugwash New Member

    trying to what?
     
  3. leeds spark

    leeds spark New Member

    Change the batteries in his twice widowed nieghbour's vibrator?
     
  4. Excalibur

    Excalibur New Member

    What newspaper? It is normal to quote sources for others to digest. We can then have a look on line for the story.
     
  5. Stoday

    Stoday New Member

    There's one electrocution a year by some bloke trying to get his rocks off using electro stimulation. But that can't be so in this case because if it were we'd read about in in the Screws of the World.
     
  6. Lectrician

    Lectrician Screwfix Select

    A lad killed himself mowing the lawn in a garden right next door to a house where i was working. Not a pretty site, i was only a 17yr old apprentice!!!
     
  7. Damocles

    Damocles New Member

    you tried those electric fence thingies? go up to 20KV!
     
  8. Wheel-nut

    Wheel-nut Member

    Just reading a story in a local newspaper that
    someone has sent to me.

    The anguished family of the father-of-five
    electrocuted trying to..........
    The last paragraph tells us that........... died in
    similar circumstances..

    Just remember everyone that a accident always happens
    to someone else.

    Is this a quote from the Daily Planet? Which Planet are you on?
     
  9. Damocles

    Damocles New Member

    lectrician, was this down to faulty installation or the classic cutting of the cable?
     
  10. Lectrician

    Lectrician Screwfix Select

    classic cables cutting.....mum will be so mad.....and he picked it up :(
     
  11. Damocles

    Damocles New Member

    Darling part P wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference then
     
  12. ban-all-sheds

    ban-all-sheds New Member

    Well... It might have meant that the mower was plugged into an RCD socket..
     
  13. Pro-Spark

    Pro-Spark New Member

    Seeing as the majority of garden equipment is class 2 It would'nt make a lot of difference having a RCD or not !!!

    Tony
     
  14. TonkaToy

    TonkaToy New Member

    Surely it would have? As the current had gone to earth through the unfortunate victim, there would have been a net imbalance between phase and neutral currents, and this in turn would have caused an RCD to operate and disconnect the current.
     
  15. Damocles

    Damocles New Member

    but how would part P have stopped him plugging the thing in in his kitchen? Even to regs, it is still permissable to have most sockets non-rcd, especially if its a budget install. interpretation...interpretation...interpretation
     
  16. Lectrician

    Lectrician Screwfix Select

    Pro spark - thats why an RCD is insisted for out door kit :)
     
  17. Pro-Spark

    Pro-Spark New Member

    Well silly woman living next door to me cut through mains cable with her hedge trimmer, mcb dropped out but rcd did not, if it had 3 core cable most prob rcd would have tripped too !!!

    Tony
     
  18. plugwash

    plugwash New Member

    as the hedge trimmer is double insulated that is the likely result

    as it will be a LN short
     
  19. Pro-Spark

    Pro-Spark New Member

    Hi Plug

    Thats exactly what I've been saying, having an RCD in the circuit dos'nt make it fool proof safe, all depends on the load config


    Tony
     
  20. Tangoman

    Tangoman Well-Known Member

    The anguished family of the father-of-five electrocuted

    I knew these electric self-sterilization kits were a mistake!

    Tango
     

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