"M. G. Devour" wrote: > Don't the medical equipment designers go to *great* lengths to keep > their patients from even the slightest possibility of contacting the > mains? I'm wondering if it is a bad idea to connect yourself up to a > device where line isolation is dependant on a cheaply made piece of > hardware from Radio Shack? <shudder> > > I thought this is why battery equipment is so much easier to > develop for body-contact applications? > > Just what are the risks?
There is certainly some slight risk that the primary and secondary could become shorted. However, unless you are grounded while using it, you still would not get a shock. I would make sure that I was not in contact with any conducting object when using as an extra safty precaution. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
