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**John Doe**

Crazy talk...

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"Bill Graham" weg9 comcast.net wrote:

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Bill Graham wrote:
John Doe wrote:
It would be like setting off a firecracker in your cat's mouth.

That's just one possible scenario. It probably wouldn't be worse.
Another possibility is the outlet sourcing up to 15 amps through your
cat's/kitten's mouth without tripping the circuit breaker. The
electricity would probably burn some flesh and your cat would run
away crying. Also possible is a much lesser shock that would
hopefully scare it into stopping before it's injured. There are many
possibilities depending on how your cat's teeth/tongue/saliva contact
the wires. The BOOM scenario is a distinct possibility though, as you
can experience by cutting through an appliance wire. As a kid, you
might have touched a 9 V battery to your tongue. If you did the same
with a 120 V wire prong (like a snake's tongue), it would probably go
BOOM and burn a serious hole in your tongue. I wouldn't want to try
that experiment.

Shielded cords plus GFI's will prevent that from happening. Read
about them he
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...ctric/gfi.html

Please remember that some circuit interrupters can act very quickly. There
is a guy who builds them into his table saws. He can put his hand into the
saw blade when it is running, and the break will stop the saw so fast that
it doesn't even break his skin. Of course, this requires more than just the
GFI. He also has to stop the saw. But he is able to do both, using a GFI to
initiate the process.....