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| MathWizard:
I've been getting a lot of static shocks lately, and I can still feel them when touching a 3.3Meg resistor, to ground, that I have on my bench lamp just for that. So if I was to take a leak on a metal pipe, or metal toilet, would I get a shock? I'd really would not want to find out tho. |
| tom66:
A normal metal pipe connected to household or industrial plumbing would typically be earthed. The reason for this is that a loose live connection could energise all taps and exposed pipes, radiators etc. if not earthed, so a safety earth connection is made from the piping to the ground. This means in the worst case it should just trip the breaker or RCD. It is therefore unlikely that, er, "relieving oneself" on indoor plumbing fixtures will pose a great risk. |
| joeqsmith:
Is that a common thing to do in parts of Canada? |
| themadhippy:
you need to measure the resistance of the liquid mid flow |
| tooki:
Given that the flow is often broken into droplets, unlikely to feel anything. (This is one reason “suicide showers” don’t actually kill people all the time: the voltage drops rapidly with distance due to breaking up into drops.) |
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