I’ve just watched an old tv show where the main character is tortured in someone’s basement with a live wire. The current is obviously flowing from the wire, through him and into the ground. Why does this not cause the fuse to blow?
I think this is probably just an error on their part, but I’m kinda curious now if that’s actually correct or not. I’m tempted to steal the idea for a book I’m writing but I’d need to know first whether or not that’s a valid method of torturing someone (never thought I’d find myself writing that sentence 😆).
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Fuses are designed to protect the house wiring from overheating in the walls and causing a fire. The average fuse is usually something like 16 or 32 amperes. That is significantly more than what a human body can conduct without specifically trying to maximize current with things like stabbing the conductors through the skin. However you can be in great pain from as low as 0.0001A and 0.01A or more starts being dangerous to your life, so there is several orders of magnitude room for some jumper cable fun before the breakers step in.
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