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If you really are worried about getting killed while working on your electrical projects? spend $20 on a GFCI outlet or pdu. that's a life-saver. If your
by lsc 13y ago
If you really are worried about getting killed while working on your electrical projects? spend $20 on a GFCI outlet or pdu. that's a life-saver. If your work bench doesn't have a gfci in the wall, go to home depot or whatever, and you can get a power strip that has GFCI functionality.
Note, from my understanding, the GFCI will provide some protection even if you only have two prongs; it monitors the hot and the neutral.
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- bananas 13y agoThey're a last line of defence to prevent persistent electrocution, burns and lock on. They still take 130-500ms to trip which is more than enough to knock you into VF (that only takes 3ms). Prevention is always the best approach.
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