Method Electricity

[SuperioS]

Recently I was with a friend and we helped another friend of his to clean something. He lives on a main street where a lot of buses drive and he told us that we shouldn't hold the water hose that we had to these electricity things for the buses, just for fun because that could be fatal. I had also seen a video where Someone held a metal rod to it and was immediately electrified, so my question is if you could die that easaly by holding like a metal rod up there or somethihg like that

 

[locked*n*loaded]

You can certainly die by electrocution. I don't know the specifics of what you're talking about with these buses, as far as how much voltage and amperage they use, so have no idea if it would be enough to kill you. But, people have and do die from by being electrocuted all the time. I don't think it's a pleasant death, though. They did away with the electric chair here in the US years ago for death row inmates because the courts ruled it was cruel and unusual punishment. I think your insides literally fry. Even your nails can pop off. It's like torture. Most people looking to kill themselves try and find a more peaceful method. Had a friend years ago die by electrocution. He was an electrician. He was up on one of those "boom", or lifts, from a truck and the boom accidentally made contact with high voltage wires. Not sure his death was instant, or not, tbh. I'm sure coworkers and rescue workers, at least, tried life saving techniques. And I don't know what it felt like for him, and don't want to know, really. Sounds like a brutal way to die.

 

[Edpal247]

I think that video you saw was a fake. The electric buses that run off overhead wires are generally running off DC voltage, which does not seek ground.

 

[Tonkpils]

I think that video you saw was a fake. The electric buses that run off overhead wires are generally running off DC voltage, which does not seek ground.

DC voltage can kill just like AC, it's the amount of current flowing that counts.

 

[Edpal247]

DC voltage can kill just like AC, it's the amount of current flowing that counts.

True. But only touvhing one of the lines shouldn't electrocute you. I believe.

 

[Tonkpils]

True. But only touvhing one of the lines shouldn't electrocute you. I believe.

Only if you are grounded, like wearing rubber soled shoes or something. If the current can pass thru you to the ground, or say you held onto a metal pole with the other hand, the current has a path and will fry you.

 

[Edpal247]

Only if you are grounded, like wearing rubber soled shoes or something. If the current can pass thru you to the ground, or say you held onto a metal pole with the other hand, the current has a path and will fry you.

Usually DC doesn't seek ground, AFAIK

 

[Praestat_Mori]

The electric buses that run off overhead wires are generally running off DC voltage, which does not seek ground.

Usually DC doesn't seek ground, AFAIK

Any electrical potential seeks ground. Thunderbolts are also DC. Even electrostatic voltage seeks ground that's y it can happen that you get electrified when you touch a car door or other things that have electrical potential.

 

[Ligottian]

A guy once told me that when he was a kid, his neighbor was trying to fix his doorbell. Instant death. No idea of the voltage or current.