I just went to a conference in Hawaii, which is usually a very popular, but half the poster boards were bare. I saw multiple recorded talks because the speakers were denied entry visas, including one of the opening keynote speakers.
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mriguy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400WEnglish1·1 month agoAnd the fuse for the circuit absolutely should not be the limiter, the RCCB should trip WAY before the main fuse.
While that certainly SHOULD be the case, in the US at least while RCCBs (we call them GFCIs) are generally required in wet areas and perhaps for new construction, in most older houses the majority of circuits don’t have any sort of ground fault protection other than the fuse/breaker. In my current house we have them on only two outlets - one in a bathroom and one in the kitchen.
mriguy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400WEnglish2·1 month agoIn most household shocks, you touch a conductor, and you are the resistor to ground. Your resistance is independent of the drive voltage, so if you touch a 110V wire, the current will be half of what you get with a 220V wire. So the voltage determines the current, and thus the lethality.
There’s lots of other factors that go into the effective resistance like the amount of moisture on your skin, what shoes you’re wearing, and what the floor is made of, etc, but in all cases twice as much voltage will cause twice as much current. You are by far the highest resistance element in the circuit, so your resistance will completely determine the current - most household circuits are capable of supplying 10-15A continuously, so your resistance is the current limiter.
It’s a bad idea either to go touching live wires either way, but the rule of thumb I heard was was that a 110V shock usually won’t kill you and 220V shock usually will.
Of course, if they’re in the army, can’t they be executed for treason and the like?