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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 20 Feb 18 4.01pm Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

my wife's hairdryer is plugged into a live mains socket. She switches the hairdryer on this morning from the handset, only to find our new puppy has chewed through the mains lead between the plug and handset.
The puppy is fine. How is this possible ? How is the puppy still alive ?

 


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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 20 Feb 18 4.06pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

It doesn't draw power until she switches it on, like a lamp doesn't. Not the same for TVs, chargers etc which always draw power.

 


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View kayjaybee's Profile kayjaybee Flag orpington 20 Feb 18 4.07pm Send a Private Message to kayjaybee Add kayjaybee as a friend

Don't worry too much, if the puppy is a male the electricity will be stored in the body. The first time he has rumpy pumpy he Will light up like pinball machine

 

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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

my wife's hairdryer is plugged into a live mains socket. She switches the hairdryer on this morning from the handset, only to find our new puppy has chewed through the mains lead between the plug and handset.
The puppy is fine. How is this possible ? How is the puppy still alive ?

She's not having much luck recently is she?

 


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View stuckinbristol's Profile stuckinbristol Flag In the woodwork. 20 Feb 18 5.19pm Send a Private Message to stuckinbristol Add stuckinbristol as a friend

Originally posted by Stuk

It doesn't draw power until she switches it on, like a lamp doesn't. Not the same for TVs, chargers etc which always draw power.

Not quite true.

When a supply is shorted it will draw power, effectively the puppy would become the appliance drawing power.
Not sure why it didn't trip the RCD on your distribution board. Was the socket switched on?

 

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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 20 Feb 18 5.26pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by stuckinbristol

Not quite true.

When a supply is shorted it will draw power, effectively the puppy would become the appliance drawing power.
Not sure why it didn't trip the RCD on your distribution board. Was the socket switched on?

That was my first thought but he said it was "a live mains socket".

Maybe the fuse had blown in the plug already?

 


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.TUX. Flag 20 Feb 18 6.25pm

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

my wife's hairdryer is plugged into a live mains socket. She switches the hairdryer on this morning from the handset, only to find our new puppy has chewed through the mains lead between the plug and handset.
The puppy is fine. How is this possible ? How is the puppy still alive ?

Simple.
He's a 'Chew-wire-wire'.

(Run away emoji needed!)

 


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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 21 Feb 18 7.07am Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

So the hair-dryer was plugged in and the socket switched on. The puppy chewed through the wire from the socket to the hairdryer. So why didn't the puppy draw power and get killed ?
I am not an electrician, but is it possible the dog chewed through the neutral or earth wires first and this may have blown the fuse in the plug, before it chewed through the live wire ?

Bloody lucky dog

 


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View stuckinbristol's Profile stuckinbristol Flag In the woodwork. 21 Feb 18 9.41am Send a Private Message to stuckinbristol Add stuckinbristol as a friend

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

So the hair-dryer was plugged in and the socket switched on. The puppy chewed through the wire from the socket to the hairdryer. So why didn't the puppy draw power and get killed ?
I am not an electrician, but is it possible the dog chewed through the neutral or earth wires first and this may have blown the fuse in the plug, before it chewed through the live wire ?

Bloody lucky dog

I think this is the answer.

The fuse in the plug was probably a 13a, now to blow that would require a charge big enough to knock over an elephant.
Are the sockets all working now, or have you had to reset a RCD or earth trip? If there was a leak to earth, the earth and neutral touching, then that would trip an earth breaker, which would have saved puppy getting too bad a shock.

Otherwise you might have a superdog on your hands. Just be careful when you are chastising him for pooing on the floor!!

 

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Park Road Flag 21 Feb 18 10.44am

Have you named the puppy yet?

If not, how about "Sparky"

 

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View elgrande's Profile elgrande Flag bedford 21 Feb 18 6.00pm Send a Private Message to elgrande Add elgrande as a friend

Originally posted by .TUX.

Simple.
He's a 'Chew-wire-wire'.

(Run away emoji needed!)

very good tux....

 


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