Other electrical apprentices and my next door neighbour

A link on the same page as No 1 - a faulty floodlight on a Council pitch that killed someone having already caused shocks to users over a month before. Strangely the inquest recorded it as accidental rather than culpable homicide.

I managed to do that while cutting a hedge. It was actually a blessing in disguise as I put a connector on teh two ends and now the trimmer has a short lead and we separate bundle of cable. Much easier to store.

Very early onset dementia?

In message <011020192303032152% snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net, Tim Streater snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net writes

There are many members in that particular club:-)

I hope you have the gender of the connector right!

My neighbour did the same trick to his Flymo shortening the cable somewhat and had made himself a Jesus lead with a plug on each end.

Hopefully even ARW's apprentices are not quite *that* thick. -- Regards, Martin Brown

New power cord needed.

I'm surprised anyone would admit that they pressed the on switch. Brian

Maybe there needs to be something in between, something like stupidity of users, after all if that happened to me I'd be at great pains to contact the owners. My cleaner who kept getting a shock of the vacuum, told me and I got it tested. No issues, it was static, but best be safe than sorry for goodness sake. Brian

I suspect would depend if the council could reasonably be expected to have know about it. Would it come under any mandatory inspection regime?

In article snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk>, Tim Lamb snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> writes

Include lawn mower leads and I suspect it might be close to universal.

When is someone going to invent a gender-fluid connector.

Point of information, yer honour: what's a Jesus lead?

J.

Also known as a widowmaker - a lead with a plug on each end.

When one plug is inserted into a live socket, the other plug has mains voltage on its exposed pins.

This causes you to exclaim "Jesus!" before going to meet him.

Owain

Been done but they arent cheap.

I would have expected an EICR every 5 years.

But from the article there were two previous reported shocks and something should have been done immediately after the first shock.

Last year I was called out to a Doctors Surgery after a member of staff reported a mild shock from their laptop. There was in fact nothing wrong with the laptop (it PAT tested OK) all she had felt was a little charge from the SMPS at a guess or a bit of static from something else.

The point is we were called out within the hour.

The only time I can remember a faster call out was when a ring circuit at SITA went down and the vending machines stopped working:-)

But you wouldn't have PAT tested the laptop it runs on dc from an external psu. i've even found PAT sticker on a battery operated radio microphone !

Ah - thanks (and also Andy).

Well I *thought* it must be that, but I hadn't made the connection(!!) I'm getting dopier, as I get on: my brain had envisaged a "plug" as being the type of 3-pin that goes into the mains socket, which would be useless, so I had to ask.

I once actually did that, many years ago, when connecting two cables. Fortunately I realised before I'd even wired up the socket end of the joint that I'd done it the wrong way round. dumb bastard. Last time I looked, they still don't put a "Danger of Death!" warning on the plug-end of such a union. (Funny really, in a society where, e.g., Starbucks warn you that your coffee cup might be hot!)

When my son got married, and started doing his own DIY, this was the one thing that I really, forcibly, warned him about. For good measure I bought him a mains-detecting screwdriver :-)

J.

Anderson SB175 ?

SteveW

Hermaphrodite connectors have been around a while.

NT

Indeed: