As reported in the South China Morning Post newspaper, a girl of Chinese nationality has died electrocuted while I was coming out of the bathroom to answer a call on his iPhone 5 which was also charging.
When we are little, one of the first things they teach us is that water and electricity don't get along. While our body offers a small (very small) resistance to the passage of electric current, if our body is wet, the resistance is further reduced and the risk of being electrocuted increases exponentially.
For now, the exact reasons that caused the electric shock are unknown. Police has yet to link the girl's death to the iPhone but Apple will collaborate in everything possible to clarify what happened, in addition, it has shown its condolences to the family for the unfortunate accident.
Another possibility that is checked is that the charger used was not the original nor certificate. We have already mentioned on occasion that using accessories of dubious quality not only puts our iPhone at risk but also ourselves and our environment.
That I remember right now (someone correct me if I'm wrong), It is the first time that we speak a case of death. We have seen other cases in which the battery has exploded (something that also happens in other electronic devices, it is not only a matter of the iPhone) but what happened with this girl is much sadder.
I know that more than one of us takes the iPhone to the bathroom to listen to music while taking a shower (something that Apple also staged in one of its latest commercials) but please, never manipulate it if it is connected to the electrical network until you are not completely dry.
More information - First case of an iPhone 5 that explodes?
Source - 9to5Mac
It is in these moments that I think that all cell phones and electronic devices today should be waterproof. Not long ago I bought an Xperia Z and the truth is that I am very happy with the resistance it has, I wish my iPad had it too.
Hello KrlosDki, I am with you that the water resistance of the Xperia Z is fantastic but in any case, if it is charging, it loses its tightness and we would be in the same. If this girl had decided to shower with her iPhone underwater, the most that would have happened is that the iPhone would be broken but she would still be alive.
While they are charging, the Xperia Z and iPhone 5 are on equal footing. Greetings!
They don't even know what they're talking about to say bullshit don't say anything for god
It seems unlikely that a mobile phone charger could kill a person. Let's think about Ohm's Law and the amounts of current that can pass through us. With data in hand, any mobile phone charger would send a current of no more than 5mA through us ... not enough to kill anyone. And also, it would be ephemeral because the differential would detect that loss and cut off the supply immediately.
The current delivered by the iPhone charger is 1A, much more than the one you mention and enough to leave us dry.
In addition, the wet human body greatly reduces its natural resistance to electricity.
As for the differential, what you say is true. I don't know what the electrical installations of Chinese homes are like.
regards
Let's see Nacho, the nominal current of 1A is the maximum that the charger can deliver ... and that would be if the body it passes through had a resistance of 5 Ohms. The wet human body has a resistance of 1.000, which is what I have considered in my calculation, and it can be up to 5.000 with dry skin. Submerged in water it can be 440 Ohms. I don't think he would take an electrical appliance plugged into a bathtub, right?
They have not given details, only that he was coming out of the bathroom to get the iPhone. It's talking a bit for the sake of talking since we don't really know what happened.
It is also not known if the charger is original and delivered the current it has to deliver. There are many variables in the air but it doesn't matter anymore, the girl has died so there is little to discuss on the subject.
Regards!
The current it delivers "depends" on resistance and voltage. The voltage must be 5V, the resistance is what it is, wet, the skin has about 1.000 Ohms approx. The current through a body under these conditions is determined by Ohm's Law. Indeed, we speak by not being silent because we do not know all the details. But so, with physics on paper ... it is difficult that the cause is the charger. I prefer a problem with the electrical installation of the house. That in China, something tells me that it should not be strange.
Blah blah blah.
To begin with, you have to know how to distinguish the charger from the power supply.
Charger is included inside our iPhone.
Power supply either digital or analog is the one that transforms the voltage from X to -X or + X.
"This is the device we plugged into the wall"
If we call that a charger for that rule of 3, any USB source is a charger, and it is not true, it is just a voltage output.
Second, and from my point of view, the supposed "charger" that for me would be a costly transformer of a digital source due to its reduced weight and size and it is easy for you to get "electrocuted".
The why? If you know how a digital source works, you will understand it easily.
The digital source is made up of drivers, capacitors, diodes, an oscillator, either transient or integrated, etc. When we plug it in, the transitor makes the driver oscillate, achieving the output voltage of the secondary, when the primary voltage is interrupted by the transitor at an astonishing speed, it is possible to raise the voltage more than you imagine. and with all the tranquility the world can be electrocuted.
«» In fact, this voltage cannot be measured with a normal test and it is not the same to be electrocuted with alternating current than with direct current. »»
Do the test, when you bring your ear towards the charger you will hear a hiss at a very high frequency, that means that the power supply is oscillating.
Nowadays few things are made with analog sources, they just want to reduce weight and size.
Most of our things around the house have these kinds of fonts.
A greeting
Forgive me for contradicting you, but take anything that is 5 volts and 1 amp, even if it is underwater and nothing happens to you at all. What could have happened is that there has been an electrical bridge from the plug itself (not a charger) to the hand, exposing you to 220 volts (if they use that voltage in China) and about 3-5 amps (or whatever it has hired the person in question), which is not even close to 5 volts and an amp. Joer, if so, as soon as we connect the charger and touch the connector that goes to the iphone we should notice something, and you don't notice or tickle. Moreover, the mere fact of touching a 7 or 8 volt battery from a drone that can have 5000 mA would shock you, and it is not like that by far.
Whatever it was, what didn't kill her was the voltage from the charger, that's for sure.
The cause is not in the charger but in the electrical installation since the differential would jump and cut the current in the event of a ground fault and the automatics would immediately start when detecting a short circuit or an overcurrent. The charger thing is impossible.
That's what I think…
To begin with, you have to know how to distinguish the charger from the power supply.
Charger is included inside our iPhone.
Power supply either digital or analog is the one that transforms the voltage from X to -X or + X.
"This is the device we plugged into the wall"
If we call that a charger for that rule of 3, any USB source is a charger, and it is not true, it is just a voltage output.
Second, and from my point of view, the supposed "charger" that for me would be a costly transformer of a digital source due to its reduced weight and size and it is easy for you to get "electrocuted".
The why? If you know how a digital source works, you will understand it easily.
The digital source is made up of drivers, capacitors, diodes, an oscillator, either transient or integrated, etc. When we plug it in, the transitor makes the driver oscillate, achieving the output voltage of the secondary, when the primary voltage is interrupted by the transitor at an astonishing speed, it is possible to raise the voltage more than you imagine. and with all the tranquility the world can be electrocuted.
«» In fact, this voltage cannot be measured with a normal test and it is not the same to be electrocuted with alternating current than with direct current. »»
There are even digital sources that do not have self-monitoring, what does this mean? that when there is no load on the secondary, the primary primes until it breaks.
The oscillation of the source depends on the load or the consumption of the secondary.
Do the test, when you bring your ear towards the charger you will hear a hiss at a very high frequency, that means that the power supply is oscillating.
Nowadays few things are made with analog sources, they just want to reduce weight and size.
Most of our things around the house have these kinds of fonts.
I say that it is not a failure of the installation I am going to pull the source or the charger according to you.
I say this from experience, it is not the first digital source that I repair.
A greeting
It strikes me that it is a digital or analog source, equipment protections are present in any electrical installation for and for something, precisely because an electrical or electronic device can fail.
If the protections of the electrical installation are present it is IMPOSSIBLE and I repeat IMPOSSIBLE to get electrocuted.
Now you can throw a toaster in the bathtub that you will never electrocute yourself in your life.
Greetings from an electrical engineer.
you are stupid and in your house there is no jug.
open an old-fashioned tv you catch the high suction cup of the line transformer with your fingers and see who jumps, you or the differential.
Brave electrical engineer shit I do.
You are as dumb as the mining engineer we had, who wanted to start a 6.000v mill with 4 groups of 380v.
Greetings from an electronics repair technician, electrotechnical installation technician, catenary maintenance installer, electromechanical graduate and low voltage operator.
If, sir, he expresses himself and the comment is not deleted or disappear, from what is seen I have no right to express myself, and if I express myself, wham ,, like the apple sphere ,,, extremists.
Well, Chachi.
melaph
I know they're all going to fry me negative, but you didn't want "noble materials" like aluminum, well, bang in my mouth !!!! this with plastic cannot happen !!!
Another bullshit. Joer, if because it's aluminum it already gives you current, let's go ready. Any electronic device that has materials that are "conductive" to electricity, are correctly isolated internally, otherwise they would constantly short-circuit internally ..... go absurd
I should go out with my hair SOAKED from the bathroom ... aside ... I don't know about you but before I answer when the phone is charging, I ALWAYS disconnect it!
Knowing that water is a conductor of electric current, I don't even know how he came up with the idea of taking the mobile that was connected to the current.
It has always been known that it is very dangerous.
But hey, that doesn't matter anymore. D.E.P.
But no woman, no! that this does not happen because of being wet! that although the iphone is charging and you catch it with your whole body wet this does not happen! that any electronic device is properly insulated and even if you touch it while wet, nothing happens to you. What has happened to this girl is that for some reason there has been an electrical bridge from the wall socket to her hand, completely skipping the charger and the iphone! That if it had been through the iphone directly or its charger, the iphone and the charger would be fried, dry, toasted, we were completely! That if the iphone that works at 5 volts, does not burn, neither do we! that if so much tension had passed to electrocute her through the charger and iphone they would all be burned, not only the girl, what's more, the leads would have jumped before the tension reached the girl. That it had to happen in another way or due to a fault in the electrical installation, which is not due to the iPhone or its charger, even if it is of the worst quality in the world!
In my opinion, it is not the first time that someone has grabbed an iPhone with wet hands and leaving the bathroom. I am 100% sure that this girl has already done it many times, and I never thought that the day would come. However, what I can say is that I have the original cables of my iPhone with a worn cover and broken to the point that the wires through which the current passes can be seen. In my own experience, cables tend to open over time and due to constant use of the cable and the movements of the iPhone while it is charging. I suspect this Young Woman's iPhone cables were worn and possibly she touched the cable on that side with her own wet arm. You have to be very careful with the cables and if they are very bare, change them for new ones. It is just my opinion. Unfortunately what happened to this girl 🙁
that these things happen gives a lot to think about…. no apple comes out of one that gets into another ...
It sounds to me that what he did was remove the charger from the wall and when he did so, he touched something or leaned on a plug that would be defective. I am an electronics engineer and I have been working for an insurance company for more than 14 years, I assure you that picking up the phone could not be, not even touching the usb cable directly. It is technically impossible.
With the SG S4 you can answer your calls just by swiping your hand and this would not have happened if you had bought it.
Because we do not see the truth and now, they want to get money from Apple and now ... If he died, we do not know the conditions of his death but if you want to see curious deaths, go and see "1000 ways to die" and there they will stay with the open mouth. They only want money, it sounds ugly yes, they lost a family member, but if it were me I would do the same, so at least he did not die in vain, call me heartless but I know that many would do the same.
Yeah true
Wopppss, that sure was a charger of those cheap "Chinese"! … You already know, don't use cheap things that in the end cheap is expensive or very expensive xD