• shininghero@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    Not just the house fuse. They’d arc flash their eyeballs and probably develop tinnitus.
    Some Americans would be dead in an afternoon if they had access to 240 at every outlet, and others would do it on purpose to try and get a settlement payout. If you ever wonder why there’s so many warning labels, this is why.

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      5 days ago

      at least all the european plugs i’ve seen are responsibly built. They expose the contacts on the very end of the little needly things so you can’t just casually touch them while plugging something in. Here, the entire shaft is metal and you can just like, touch both of them with the plug half plugged in.

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      Probably not though, 220v here and flipped the house fuse, still have my eyeballs, didn’t exploded

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        Same here, though mine was from a PSU that hadn’t fully discharged. Though it felt like it affected my taste buds for a few days… I stayed awake through it. Also made my balls tingle for an hour.

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      This is a continuous line of rather thick metal. It wouldn’t arc or electrocute anyone, it would get a fraction of a degree warmer before the circuit breaker tripped