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> ... rolling onto iPhone cable ... > Police said a "broken-down" charging brick and frayed cable were also found in the 14-year-old's bed. It is not thought t

• koenigdavidmj 9y ago
  The cable shouldn't be carrying mains voltage at all. It's USB; isn't that low enough current to be mostly harmless?
  • JustSomeNobody 9y ago
    So they[0] should be calling the OEM of the brick and cable, not Apple. [0] The people "reporting" on this incident.
  • SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
    The cable probably was carrying mains voltage. Most of the cheap third-party chargers have very poor clearances inside, and tend to skimp on protection. It's not that rare for them to end up with a 5V DC atop a 120/240V AC mains. The phone will often still charge just fine, but the cable is dangerous. Also, depending on the resistance as little as 10mA can be dangerous. That would mostly be wet or abraded skin, 100mA is a more general value for dangerous currents. But USB can charge at 500mA to 4A or so, depending on the version. It's only the low voltage and high resistance of skin that limits the current.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    The “broken down” brick could have the kind of short which would deliver mains voltage to the cable.
• tinus_hn 9y ago
  > So, teenager gets electrocuted by frayed off-brand cable. That is news. But ‘electrocuted by iPhone cable’ is not what happened.