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RE: Urgent question on AW10's
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- Subject: RE: Urgent question on AW10's
- From: "James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:46:22 +0100
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> MORE IMPORTANTLY......THE POWER DID NOT TRIP.
> I was sitting on a piece of cardboard on a dry wooden floor. The
> shock I received was directly across Live and Neutral therefore
> there was no leakage to earth so the trip has no reason to pop.
> Had I ONLY touched the Live wire the trip should have cut off
> the power with little or no effect to me.
I was about to mention this, but Keith (as usual) beat me to it! A RCD
works by detecting any DIFFERENCE between the live and neutral - so if you
hold the live in one hand and the neutral in the other without earthing
yourself, you'll certainly know about it (if you survive) - and the RCD
won't trip.
There are also differently rated RCDs - 30mA is required for electric shock
protection, whereas a 100mA device will only offer fire and no shock
protection.
James H
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