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My kids like to listen to music while in the shower, and so we bought a waterproof shower speaker with bluetooth - they now play the music from their phone - which is NOT in the bathroom - and hear it via the speaker which is approved for use in the shower.
I'm anti- having phones in the bathroom mainly because that's NASTY. *lol*
My kids like to listen to music while in the shower, and so we bought a waterproof shower speaker with bluetooth - they now play the music from their phone - which is NOT in the bathroom - and hear it via the speaker which is approved for use in the shower.
I'm anti- having phones in the bathroom mainly because that's NASTY. *lol*
There's much nastier things lurking elsewhere in the world outside of your bathroom. I recall studies that show the bathroom is often the cleaner of the places in a house for various reasons. But yeah, I agree with you. Poop + pee + phone = gross.
While I know thats already been posted...this part wasn't
So now we are dealing with 120V AC. This will easily generate the 100 mA required to start messing with your heart. Standing in water, she likely received well above that.
The old tale about amps killing and not volts is like saying it wasn't the speed he was driving at that killed him it was the crash. While true, its obvious that the crash results are highly dependent on the speed the car was travelling at.
guns dont kill people; bullets kill people.
voltage is non-tangible electro-motive force; current is the rate at which electrons (which are quantum sized physical objects) pass thru a fixed point.
power is the rate at which energy is absorbed or dissipated which is also the product of p = v * i.
very high voltage * 0 current = 0 watts.
very high current * 0 voltage = 0 watts.
moderate voltage * moderate current = high power.
All it takes is 50 mA to cause fibrillation some of these cell phone chargers are near 1.5 amps or 1500 mA. The higher current so the battery charges quicker. A GFI is designed to open at 4 - 6 mA and all outlets in bathrooms have been required to be GFI for about 20 years now. If it's an old home then it probably didn't have GFI protection. I recommend all homes no matter what age to install GFIs most likely would have saved her life.
The current eddie1278 cites is the capacity of the charger through the low resistance of the battery, not through the teen's body. A wet body can be about 500-1000 ohms according to NIOSH. A 5 VDC charger can send a current of 5/1000 amps = 50-100 mA thru the body. Sounds about right, eh? The charger cannot pass more than the resistance of the body, but that would be enough.
"sad"
My 11 yr old has one! She's in middle school activities after school. We got her one so she can keep in touch with us if needed. You do know there's a thing called parental controls, right?
ANYWAY..... I thought most outlets automatically shut down if water get on them (GFCI) so that something like this can't happen? Maybe it's an out of date outlet? Poor kid! Sad!
A better question is why would anyone be pathetic enough to have a cell-phone in a bathtub?
Because it is their nipple of life, and, yes, pathetic.
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