Teenager dies after being electrocuted by her iPhone charger while she slept
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centrino207
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Why is it always the iPhone? You don't hear laptops, tablets and other smartphone electricuting or killing people.
centrino207
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Properly well lot safer than sticking some thing in toaster that lot people do.
fimbles
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Quote: "The path back to ground is through the cable as the cable itself has a ground in it.
I would have guessed that would have left a nasty hand burn due to the short distance the voltage would have traveled inside the body to return to ground. Then I had the horrible thought that she may have rolled directly on to it with her chest. Poor kid.
I would have guessed that would have left a nasty hand burn due to the short distance the voltage would have traveled inside the body to return to ground. Then I had the horrible thought that she may have rolled directly on to it with her chest. Poor kid.
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The article says it was the charger that was the problem so nothing to do with the phone itself. If people used faulty laptop or tablet chargers, you might have a similar problem.
According to the article that I linked in one of my previous posts, there were burn marks found.
Agreed! Poor kid! No one deserves to die like this. Her parents ought to sue the maker of the charger, if they can figure that out, for every iota of finances they have.
Anton Skryaga
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Both too high. Safe level is around 25v AC and 60v DC.
David Belkin
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"Third party knockoff"... In the past six years, I have replaced my original Apple charging cable of each iPhone I've owned with an overpriced Apple cable. When I complain to the Apple Store, the employee, keeps responding like they're trained to, that I most likely abuse the cable, not true, and I too got fed up and I too, and many others I know, like the unfortunate victim in this story, have tried to tape over the breaking cable.
Apple supplied iOS device cables are rubbish, it's time Apple take note and do something about it., and the original cables are just scandalously overpriced.
Apple supplied iOS device cables are rubbish, it's time Apple take note and do something about it., and the original cables are just scandalously overpriced.
Skidmarksdeluxe
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A word of good advice... Always take things at face value and never take things at face value. Take some time off to work that one out.
Kibaruk
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There was a time where you actually made intelligent contributions, lately every time I read you you are having a "fight" with someone and you just keep on trolling.
Scodd
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Yeah there was a time when we heard a limited number of semi-intelligent contributions from it, but I think it has been cutting down on donepezil for the last couple years.
cliffordcooley
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"Moreover, the tragedy was almost certainly due to a faulty USB power adaptor allowing the full mains voltage to travel through the cable."
If the phone was still plugged in and no damage to the phone was done, that is not the case. Full main voltage would damage the phone.
If the phone was still plugged in and no damage to the phone was done, that is not the case. Full main voltage would damage the phone.
I think I saw them at the apple store
mbrowne5061
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Well, current plays a much bigger factor, but put 10KV at 0.1mA across someone, and they're still going to have a very bad day.
If voltage is the diameter of the hose nozzle, current the pressure behind the water coming out, wattage is the force of the water as it comes out of the nozzle. To continue the metaphor: High pressure-low volume can cut metal, low pressure-high volume is still perfectly capable of knocking down a wall.
cliffordcooley
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Nice analogy but you should switch the two. Current would be the hose diameter, and voltage the pressure.
Skidmarksdeluxe
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You see it's like this. The news never changes. It's the same thing over and over.
Athlonite
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Because it's not the voltage that kills it's the Current it only take 0.5A to stop your heart if she got a full 2 amps going trough her then that'll be the reason she died
Athlonite
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No it's not the Voltage that kills you it's the Current 120V with no current will tickle the **** outta you but wont kill you add just .5 of an amp and you'll be lying on the floor dead
cliffordcooley
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It takes both. While what you say about current at .5 amps killing someone is true. The voltage has to be way up for so little current to effect anyone. At 5 volts which should be the voltage supplied from a USB connection, you couldn't supply enough current to kill anyone.
This is the kind of crap that annoys me about Hollywood. They fictionalize a set of booster cables electrocuting someone, while the other end is only connected to a car battery. You can lick a car battery while your hand is on the other terminal. The damned thing wouldn't taste good but it will not kill you. I promise you a car battery puts out more current than that little phone charger.
There's NO current without a voltage. If your body's resistance is let's say 5kOhms, 5 Volts would NEVER kill you (5 volts / 5kohms = 1mA), just like a car battery won't kill you, even though it can deliver currents in excess of 300Amps. So yeah, it's the current that kills, but according to Ohm's law "current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference (yup, that's the voltage) across the two points"
centrino207
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Than why is it some people get electrocute by lighting or sticking some thing in their toster got shock but did not die but iPhone cable that killed them.
Hank their been people got shock by touching oulit in house and did not die or get sent to the hospital.
Hank their been people got shock by touching oulit in house and did not die or get sent to the hospital.
captaincranky
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Well, aren't you somebody special. calling people it (*), magically divining what anti-psychotic drug they're on, and judging the merit of what they've said, over the past few years. This with a massive inventory of 23 posts, (& 0 "likes"), at your disposal.
If you've been following the Skidster that closely over the years, without participating in the forum, that could almost be considered, "stalking".
Something to consider, a woman would never choose the screen name "Skidmarksdeluxe", they're much too vain, prim, & proper, to do so. So, show some respect and save the neuter gender pronouns for non-living objects.
Scodd
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Stalking? Be careful , ya might get it excited. "...much too vain, prim & proper...". Been out lately?
captaincranky
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Grow up and can the "it" sh!t. You're nobody here. Maybe you should take you own advice and get out there and date one of the "its", roaming around in the wild these days. At least you won't be wasting my time. Have some fun, decompress, yank up a couple of skirts. Who knows, maybe you'll meet "Mr. Right".
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