I survived 32 years taking showers on these...
It is a surprising survival rate for something that has "suicide" in the name, isn't it?
In my home town it was 220Vac phase voltage (not line), thus we still had a grounded neutral. Regardless, I also noticed the water resistance is too high to compromise your brains...
Yes, those with one-phase 127V-neutral or 220V-neutral installations are lucky enough to have an incidental leakage conductor already dipped in the water. But those with two-phase 220V (i.e. two live wires) installations need to take extra precautions.
When you're wet under the showerhead your skin resistance is as low as a few kilohms. Ironically you and the water form a voltage divider in which the water resistance is at least one hundred times greater. Any residual voltage in the water will be divided by that factor.
That will be the subject for a next video.
The video is very informative and you even highlighted one of my replies on the other thread.
As an electronics engineer myself, I spent a whole carrier joining the forces in the battle against moisture and water mixed with electricity. Electric showers in special always give me the hibbie jibbies. But to my surprise it seems that under very specific circumstances water and electricity go together very well.
The suicide shower is something that defies the common sense. It seems to be more of a happy accident (to quote Bob Ross) than a mistake. And that's why I decided to investigate.
However, I personally found the synthesized voice a bit distracting.
I don't know what to do about that. I simply can't speak in front of a camera. Even if I read a script.
I can't afford a narrator. So I guess I'll have to learn to live with that. Sorry.