Dangers of Using Electronics in Bathroom, the Case of the Teenage Girl
Added 2017-07-19 06:15:40 +0000 UTCThis is the sad tragedy of the teenage girl, Madison Coe, who passed away while using her mobile phone in the bathroom. I hope her story provides awareness around the dangers of using electronics in the bathroom.
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That's the pan for my next video: would a GFCI save my life?
ElectroBOOM [Mehdi Sadaghdar]
2017-07-20 16:27:23 +0000 UTCMehdi, other have commented on the presence of absence of a GFI outlet in the bathroom. Perhaps you could address that in your video? Would a GFI have prevented this tragedy?
2017-07-20 04:05:52 +0000 UTCBigClive Mitchell has NUMEROUS examples of cheap Chinese chargers where the live is passed through the charger due to bad design (capacitive-dropper circuits instead of transformer or proper switch-mode supplies). Also the UK plug as pointed out by Clive and Tom Scott is much better, even if it is horribly clunky.
Dustin
2017-07-19 23:21:20 +0000 UTCMake this video public
2017-07-19 14:33:35 +0000 UTCThe US mains plugs were designed that way intentionally. They gave natural selection a way to better dispose of stupid people.
2017-07-19 13:57:43 +0000 UTCSuch a sad accident. My guess is that there wasn't GFCI in the bathroom and that there was a high resistance path to AC hot along the phone ground, which upon being connected to ground through the bathtub, melted its way into a low resistance path. Poor girl.
2017-07-19 12:54:52 +0000 UTCIn Ontario, Canada for new construction or new new electrical work any receptacle within a certain number of feet from water sources in the house are required to be a GFCI receptacle. Bedroom receptacle are on a GFCI Circuit Breaker (the actual name escapes me at the moment). All our kitchen, bathroom and outside yard receptacles have GFCIs. I changed the garage receptacles to GFCIs because I use them for Yard tools or work in the yard where the grass may be wet.
Rav
2017-07-19 12:27:28 +0000 UTCI'm guessing there wasn't a working GFCI outlet in that bathroom. This reminds me to test mine today.
TheGreatCornholio
2017-07-19 12:16:12 +0000 UTCIn the US, the plugs exposes live contacts to the touch, in the EU, the plugs are sometime impossible to use because of "child security" that only a child can handle. I guess the only solution is to live in the middle of the Atlantic.
Cley Faye
2017-07-19 08:16:46 +0000 UTC
