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For you to get electrocuted your body needs a return path for the voltage to get back to ground. Usually your shoes break this return path. Even though your whole body is up to the 240 volt potential you will not feel it. If the soles of your shoes were leather, or standing in water there might be a chance of getting a jolt but if you are in bare feet you would get the full force of the 240 volts. The only thing governing the amperage through your body is the internal resistance of your body. It just takes milliamps to kill. Below is a chart of the amount of milliamps a body can take.
Less than 1/2 milliamp no sensation
1/2 to 2 milliamps Threshold of perception
2 to 10 milliamps muscular contraction
5 to 25 milliamps painful shock (may not be able to let go)
Over 25 milliamps Could be violent muscular contraction
50 to 100 milliamps Ventricular fibrillation
over 100 paralysis of breathing.
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Why should you not use an iron rod to push a live wire?
Iron rod is a conductive material. You will get electrocuted if you touch a live wire with any conductive material like iron rod. It could be fatal to do so.
Bats cannot touch electrical wires?
NO because they may get electrocuted.
How can a bird go on a wire and not die?
Birds don't get electrocuted unless they touch something else besides just the wire -- the electricity will then flow through their bodies toward whatever they're touching. Sometimes you do see birds that have been killed by the electric wires.
What happens if your hands are wet when you touch a charged object?
If your hands are wet when you touch a charged object, you will get an electric shock or electrocuted.
What will happen when water is electrocuted?
If sufficient current current passes through your heart it will either stop or go into fibrillation ... in either case you will quickly die.Since it must pass through your body, a basic safety rule when working with hot wires is "to keep one hand in your pocket". That is, don't allow yourself to be grounded by one hand (or wet feet for that matter) if your other hand should happen to touch a hot wire.most of this answer is right, but only in a category of high voltage. the reason why you get electrocuted is because water is one of the best conductors. if you put two wires on the carpet it will not burn, heat up (unless the wires are touching) or get electrocuted. but a wet carpet will surely get electrocuted. with humans being 80% water, we are good conductor. a human is a better ground than the ground. but if you touch a positive wire while connected to the ground, you will be electrocuted. if you touch a negative wire while connected to the ground you will not be electrocuted.but if you touch a positive or negative wire while not touching the ground you will not be electrocutedbut if you touch a positive and negative wire, on or off the ground you will be electrocuted.the ground is negatively charged, and when connected to the ground, so are you.positive and negative electrons react to each other, and touching both of them to a conductive material (such as yourself) allows them to do that. and your brain communicates with your organs with electricity, which is why your heart can stop.
Why do electrical tools have insulating handles?
because if you touch a wire you might get electrocuted
How does bird land in wires without getting electrocuted?
The outside of cables is coated in a protective sleeve - that insulates the wire from the weather. So long as the bird doesn't touch the conductor - it's fine.
Why do copper wires need to be coated in plastic?
To stop them shorting out with one another when they touch and to prevent people from being electrocuted by touching a bare wire.
Why should you not use an iron rod to push a live wire?
Iron rod is a conductive material. You will get electrocuted if you touch a live wire with any conductive material like iron rod. It could be fatal to do so.
How birds sitting on the wire?
you have to be incontact with the ground to get electrocuted!
How does plastic over metal wires prevent being electrocuted?
Plastic is a bad conductor of electricity. Metals are good conductors of electricity. You get the metal wires coated by plastic. So when you touch the wire, you do not get the electric current. This nature of the plastic protects you from getting electrocuted.
Can you use one wire from the panel with 240v on it to wire a 240v water heater?
In North America it takes two "hot" wires to obtain 240 volts.
Will a man get electrocuted if he sits on one electrical wire?
if he had bunyans
Bats cannot touch electrical wires?
NO because they may get electrocuted.
I have 240V 3 wire twistlock plug and want to wire it so I have 120V outlet?
Don't!
Why is it essential to earth electrical appliances having metallic body?
if the appliance shorts out (if one or more of the wires inside it come into contact with the outer casing) the electricity will take the shortest route to be neutralised. If there is no earth wire and you touch the shorted out appliance then the shortest route to neutralise the electric charge is through you, and you will be electrocuted. If an earth wire is present then the shortest route to neutralise the current will be through this wire, so you would not be electrocuted if you touched the shorted out appliance.
How can a bird go on a wire and not die?
Birds don't get electrocuted unless they touch something else besides just the wire -- the electricity will then flow through their bodies toward whatever they're touching. Sometimes you do see birds that have been killed by the electric wires.
