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News Forum - Bangkok man electrocuted to death charging his phone
I’m assuming the answer to some of the above statements is as follows: The original plug consisted of mental pins with a hole and screw to attach the Live, Neutral and possibly Earth (ground) to the respective pins. The pins, for whatever reason were now missing and so he simply inserted the Live and Neutral in to the mains socket. I don’t believe this played a role in the incident. The fault, whatever it was, must have been within the charger and placed mains voltage on the 0Volt output of the charger. This could be due to a fault on the input transformer within the charger. This mains voltage on the 0 volt line of the charging cable, which in turn is connected to the body or metal parts of the phone. When the guy held the phone, or was gripping it at the time of the fault, he would have completed the circuit and current would have passed to Earth (Ground) through him. An RCD would have protected him but a circuit breaker not necessarily so. It depends how much current was flowing through him. Most breakers for mains sockets are rated at 16Amps to 20Amps. A current as low as 0.1-0.2 Amps is enough to kill you. It’s current that kills, not voltage. In addition, circuit breakers aren’t always quick enough to isolate the circuit to stop personal injury or death, while RCD’s are. Quality chargers have other safety features built in, such a fuses rated at a few milliamperes which would have blown in such a situation. Cheap chargers often don’t have such a feature. These quality chargers also use “Opto Isolators or Opto-Couplers between the primary and secondary side of the circuit. Then there are aspects of double insulation or reinforced insulation. Morale of this story? Don’t buy a cheap charger from Lazada. Pay for a quality charger. In the long run it will last more years and perhaps save your life or that of your family. -
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News Forum - Foreigners, particularly Russians, accused of working illegally in Phuket
Guessing the right people are as usual being paid off, therefore the problem doesn't exist -
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What are Health Services like in your country?
There is already location allowance in nurses salary. But for sure, London and the SE with higher housing costs are going to be harder places to make ends meet. That's pretty obvious https://faq.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/knowledgebase/article/KA-23439/en-us -
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What are Health Services like in your country?
I accept that you think 36k is a good wage, and I said that I disagree with that. Moving on I then asked you at what point do you think things would start to get difficult :30k, 25k, 20k? I also asked you to back up your unsubstantiated claim that Pat Cullen was corrupt. I'm not putting any words into your mouth. You said this yourself. Seems like all you have to say is that you think 36k is a good wage, what do you base that idea on? ️️ Must have some idea of costs of living and why that wage is good? Please provide. -
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News Forum - Bangkok man electrocuted to death charging his phone
My only point about the plug is the article says “it was missing metal parts”. I don’t think thats possible. You should have to cut the plug portion back to the wires. I wouldn’t describe cutting back the wire and directly inserting it as missing metal parts. maybe he did that but it’s incorrectly described by either the police or the author. But even then that just implies there is a cross at source of the plug—the exposed wires are touching. But if there’s a direct cross of wires how is a main breaker not tripped? And even then, how does it go through the rest of the first cord through a second plug up a phone charger and through a phone at a lethal level. Put another way, even if the plug is removed and the wires are directly inserted, would that electrocute someone? Anyway I don’t doubt he was electrocuted but it seems like he’s been quickly blamed for his own death. As usual in Thailand start by blaming the victim
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