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From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 15:08:45 EST
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Curry
All:
I'm not for sure I understand all of this. As a pratical matter what does
it mean?
REPLY
Shock hazard! possible cardiac arrest.
not guaranteed it will happen; but most people react strongly to getting
even a tingle from something electrical.
When you add the possibility of wet skin on a boat you also increase the
risk of actual physiological damage.
As a working marine electrician I have gotten minor shocks when working
in the vicinity of energized equipment.
This usually happens around defective equipment I was not aware of it
being energized.
Fortunately I have never gotten a serious shock or electrical burn. But
I know people who did.
I have received safety courses that demonstrated just how deadly stray
current can be. Even so accidents do happen on occasion.
To the unwary and untrained consumer not trained in the precautions needed
to stay alive on the job when using energized electrical equipment any
ungrounded genset could be a hazard under the right circumstances.
Would you gamble your life on the toss of a coin? ... No? .. then
how about the roll of the dice?
If both answers are NO, then why would you gamble on the probability
that some piece of consumer equipment will never ever fail?
regards
Arild
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