Can a washing machine show an electric shock in a shower through water?
Good afternoon! In the kitchen there is a washing machine, through the wall there is a bathroom. If the machine erases and something fails and a current leak occurs, at which point a person takes a shower. Can current flow through pipes or water to the bathroom and hit a person taking a shower?
In principle, it should not, since there is no constant contact with water, it is cut off by the valve in the washing mode. But if the electric heater breaks through, then a dangerous potential will appear on the machine’s body, purely theoretically it can reach the bathroom through the water and the water will flow with electric current, just like when some “bad person” decides to ground to the water supply. And “through the wall” she or two does not play a strong role. To avoid this, they make equalization of potentials and install RCDs.
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And how dangerous is this electric shock? Can he kill a man?