Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Perhaps the weakest link in the US electrical system" video.

  1. 15:20 You should've been copying Australia!
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  2. America's methods are a valuable teaching tool for the rest of the world as they teach us HOW NOT TO DO THINGS!
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  3. 22:00 120 volts can still be lethal, depending on how many watts are being pumped through that wire! 2 or 3 watts may just throw you off with a bit of a shake but 20 watts may cause a heart attack. And that's just AC current. Change that to DC and even 2 or 3 watts can send you to your grave.
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  4. Australia had mandatory safety switches(DPST = Double-Pole-Single-Throw) for as long as we've had domestic electricity supply, they prevented power being available immediately at the wall socket to whatever device was plugged in, so as to avoid arcing, which could be fatal at 240 volts/50 Hz alternating current. No. The item is first plugged in to the socket, then the safety switch is thrown to apply power to the device. An earth wire is mandatory on Australian power sockets, and while quite a lot of transistorised gear, which had only two-pin plugs came about in the 1960s and 1970s, the Australian standard wall sockets had the extra safety feature of having the active and neutral pins and recepticals on the sockets slanted obliquely, thus: * / \ * to prevent the plug being inserted incorrectly. This puts our Australian power supply standards way out in front of America's standards!
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