[Gllug] Electric Shocks

[t.clarke]

Since some of you gentlemen are cleary very knowledgable on the subject of
electicity, maybe someone has the definitive answer to a a couple of questions
that have fascinated me:

a) is it true that if you stand on a perfect or near-refect insulator (eg big
fat rubber mat) and touch an HV source (say several KV relative to earth) you
won't get a shock ?   - not the sort of thing I wish to test practically !

b) we operate a 240V UPS here which 'floats'  - ie one leg is NOT tied down
to earth.  The suggestion is similarly that touching either wire will not
produce a shock since there is supposedly nowhere for the current to flow.
True or false ?

Tim


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug