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Dozens of people in Australia die every year from their own 12 or 230V wiring I actually find 12V worse. People then try to run mains equipment off it with hig

• ddeck 3y ago
  >Dozens of people in Australia die every year from their own 12 or 230V wiring Do they? Your claim surprised me, so I did some digging: Not from electrocution certainly, because as of a few years ago [1], there were only about 5-6 unintentional electrocutions in the home each year nationally, and that's all cause, not DIY electrical. WRT fire, there are 4-5 deaths from preventable house fires annually caused by electrical faults (the leading causes being smoking and cooking) [2]. There is also a further ~1 death per year categorized as "misuse of electrical equipment". It's not clear into which category DIY electrical would fall, but it's not mentioned at all in the report. [1] https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/2c37bd48-ee08-43d5-be11-f6929f671b83/aihw-injcat-197.pdf.aspx?inline=true https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/2c37bd48-ee08-43d5-be11-f69... [2] https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/publications/biblio/bnh-5807 https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/publications/biblio/bnh-5807
• Johnythree 3y ago
  This makes zero sense:? If you hook a 240V appliance to 12V DC it will draw negligible current. Perhaps you are trying to talk about people using a 12V to 240V inverter to run AC equipment in a car or off-grid, but not using large enough batteries. What-ever, the end result will be a flat battery or blown fuse, so little damage will be done. No worse than any other 12V wiring in a car.