We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electrify everything

Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by atoav on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:49PM (#34346215)

Yep, that means somewhere there is current flowing through some pipe, some wall, something. And that is bad. 30mA is not much of a threshold, but it has been chosen because currents above that (or currents that flow longer than the 0,03s it should take maximum to trip an RCD will kill people. Not to speak of fire hazards.

So, somewhere you have a thing, that could kill you, a firend, a loved one or whomever. And you decide to ignore it because money. Where I live, if something would happen this could land you in prison.

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by phpisthebest on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:48PM (#34347478)

Yes lost of people do Risk Assessment for Money all the time, that is called life

>> And you decide to ignore it because money. Where I live, if something would happen this could land you in prison.

Well I am glad i do not live where you live (let me Guess EU?)

Further this is an advertisement for never even attempting to install the Whole House GFCI on an older home them, if knowledge == Liability, then be ignorant.

the safety nancy's in this thread are unreal

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by atoav on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:44AM (#34350030)

Just FYI I am a certified electrical engineer and I do risk assessment as well, all the time. Certain things are "taking a risk" as in "there is sharp knife in the kitchen", others are just plain stupid like "one of the door knobs in this house is a knife".

So the results of my risk assessment might just look a little different, because I am more familiar with the matter and the potential consequences than you might be.

Best of luck to you.

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by shawabawa3 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:37AM (#34351199)

> And you decide to ignore it because money

Absolutely not. We will get it fixed, the electrician just didn't have the time at that point, he's coming back to find the leak

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by 98codes on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:26PM (#34357234)

Hopefully with the breaker for that circuit turned off in the meantime.

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Re:We need a lot more electricians if we’re going to electri... by danaris on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:03AM (#34354496)

> And you decide to ignore it because money.

I mean...this doesn't seem to apply to the GP, but you do understand that there are many, many people in the US for whom the amount of money needed to install that whole-house GFCI would be fine...but the amount needed to track down the faulty wire and fix it to make the house genuinely safe would bankrupt them?

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