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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: electrical deaths
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 01:30:40 +0100
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On 2024-11-28 15:39, Clive Arthur wrote:
> On 28/11/2024 13:41, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2024-11-28 13:14, Martin Brown wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> One of my friends at university (at a top level institution) found 
>>> himself holding a live plug a on Jesus lead left behind by a previous 
>>> graduate student. The burns from that were horrific. Once attached 
>>> you can't let go or move and burning human flesh doesn't smell good. 
>>> He was probably only on for 30s before someone realised and 
>>> disconnected him.
>>
>> What's a "Jesus lead"? I tried to google, but what I find are songs.
> 
> A mains cable with a plug at both ends.  It means your home-made disco 
> console can use a readily obtainable mains socket for power input and it 
> doesn't matter which way round you unwind the cable.  Another advantage 
> is that you can unplug the console end and use it to fend off violent 
> drunks.
> 
> I don't understand why they're not used more often.

Jesus!

Yes, I have seen them. On 220 volts. They were used for transformers, 
those that had 120 on one side, 220 on the other, both being female 
sockets, so you needed a cable with two male plugs to connect them to 
the wall.

We don't see such transformers anymore, but when I was a kid they were 
common, because although most houses were 220 volts, some were 125, so 
we had gadgets of both voltages.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.