Hey engineers!
I'm not an engineer, I know nothing, so I thought I'd ask you about this.
From what I've heard, if you don't have proper ground (a rod) in your house, you should never try to make a "cheap DIY fix" by conencting ground to some radiator or whatever. From what I've heard, the reason for this is that when some appliance in my 230v AC house breaks so that live touches the metal case, and ground trips, then any possible person in the building who happens to hold his or her hand on another radiator (or pipe) in the house will get the same shock as if he or she put two fingers in the outlet, and get electrocuted / die.
So, with this as background, I became very curious when I got to my local commuter train station yesterday, and noticed that a ground cable is attached to a friggin' metal gate on the platform, where all commuter people stands all day. This would mean, that if that ground wire was tripped by a electrical fault, then all the people who would lean against that fence that moment would get a severe shock.
How can this even be legal??
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I'm not an engineer, I know nothing, so I thought I'd ask you about this.
From what I've heard, if you don't have proper ground (a rod) in your house, you should never try to make a "cheap DIY fix" by conencting ground to some radiator or whatever. From what I've heard, the reason for this is that when some appliance in my 230v AC house breaks so that live touches the metal case, and ground trips, then any possible person in the building who happens to hold his or her hand on another radiator (or pipe) in the house will get the same shock as if he or she put two fingers in the outlet, and get electrocuted / die.
So, with this as background, I became very curious when I got to my local commuter train station yesterday, and noticed that a ground cable is attached to a friggin' metal gate on the platform, where all commuter people stands all day. This would mean, that if that ground wire was tripped by a electrical fault, then all the people who would lean against that fence that moment would get a severe shock.
How can this even be legal??
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