Electrocution Experience: Analyzing Current, Voltage, and Possible Consequences

Jerzy Bartnicki wrote:

Hello
I would like to add two details to the last post, because probably my friend is not an electrician.
The voltage did not exceed 240V even when the stove was connected to 400V, it results from the association of lines. As for the formula where there is 1000, it is the assumed skin resistance, which you probably gave using the lowest possible, in very special cases when the skin is injured it may be less.

You are both wrong and you do not read the posts carefully.
1000? is not skin resistance!
This is the resistance of the human body, the meat. The skin is the epidermis, an inorganic substance, an insulator. And it has many times higher resistance than 1000?.

You don't read the posts carefully. Why does water increase the likelihood of electrocution? After all, water is a very good insulator. It does not conduct electricity.
And most of the shouting from the RCD was about the bathroom because there is water.

However, professors and postdoctoral holders also have inhibitions in thinking and analyzing.
Because the requirement for an RCD was for the bathroom, the kitchen was forgotten.
Probably the gentlemen with the titles do not look into the kitchen and have no idea what the women are doing there. And that there is a much greater danger than in the bathroom.

What a colleague did when he was electrocuted - he was washing the counter, and his hands were covered in chemicals, and this
there are electrolytes. The electrolytes penetrate the pores in the skin and thus the skin's resistance
is drastically reduced.
Even without chemicals, there are substances on the skin that come into contact with water
they become electrolytes.

As for the paralyzed friend, the doctor was right. There is such a thing as shock.
Even individual tissues and the entire body can be shocked.
This phenomenon is unknown, and in drastic cases, the severed limb may not bleed, which theoretically contradicts physics.
I've been working with medics for several years, near the morgue and mortuary. And I do not close my eyes to what is drawn on their boards. There is such a board: the cell is in shock.
Bronek

Bronek22 wrote:

After all, water is a very good insulator.

I'm in shock. You killed me with this-to death. You see - distilled a bit like that, but find one in the tap or shower.

Madrik wrote:

in large numbers it is simply more of a poor insulator than a poor conductor.

Beautifully. Such uniforms are fun to read. But still, wouldn't you want someone to throw a hair dryer in your bathtub?
As for that flash, I don't think it really was there. It just got blind for a moment, hence the effect. He must have had his whole life before his eyes, how they told it.