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I received this from someone that came across the forum and just wanted to make sure all of you stay safe while exploring. Here is his message.....
Please advise that there are more than enough volts and mils at the switchboards and distribution equipment shown to burn you very badly or kill you stone dead if you touch any of the equipment shown if it is live.
Any domestic premises will have the possibility of 230 volts at 20 Amps or more. Any significant industrial installation will have available 440 volts at 50 Amps or more. Major industrial distribution systems in factories or works may well have 11000 volts at 50 Amps or more. It WILL kill you - unless you want to take the chance and prove me wrong, after I spent a career establishing procedures to ensure circuits were dead and stayed dead while persons were working on or near them.
Electrical safety
As a retired electrical distribution engineer I'm horrified to think of your members wandering around some of the places recently illustrated which have live or partly live electricity supplies, with no more electrical knowledge than "its volts that jolts but mils that kills".Please advise that there are more than enough volts and mils at the switchboards and distribution equipment shown to burn you very badly or kill you stone dead if you touch any of the equipment shown if it is live.
Any domestic premises will have the possibility of 230 volts at 20 Amps or more. Any significant industrial installation will have available 440 volts at 50 Amps or more. Major industrial distribution systems in factories or works may well have 11000 volts at 50 Amps or more. It WILL kill you - unless you want to take the chance and prove me wrong, after I spent a career establishing procedures to ensure circuits were dead and stayed dead while persons were working on or near them.