Re: Inverters and Moderators with their head up their own arses

Ste wrote:
On 19 May, 00:52, Blah <B...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Och! Is this discussion still going on?
Even if one cannot find any evidence of death by inverter, presumably
the papers would report it as "man dies of electrocution", not
"inverter kills man".
Ach, but google being pretty intense - there would be *something* -
the poor trollbait can't find *anything*, so are buggered.

The only mention of inverters and electrocution on Google lead back to
this thread!

And besides, why do you believe "there would be something" relating to
death by inverter? The inverter is a fairly obscure piece of equipment
to the ordinary person, and there's no reason to think that news
reports would make specific mention of it; the press would more likely
refer to a death caused by a faulty inverter as "electrocution by
faulty equipment".

Beyond that, what exactly what are the opposing contentions here again?

There's nothing obscure about an inverter - its a very common piece of electronics that 'makes' 240v AC out of of 12v dc battery power - used by campers and the like. Also used used to supply computer equipment in case of power failure as a UPS or Uninteruptable Power Supply.
Zillions around, wordwide,

It started as "electric fences will kill you", and swopped to invertors are similarly lethal.

Except that everyone can point to other people saying 'inverters are lethal' but the best we've had for a cite for *anyone* dying is a hearsay report of an Aussie dying, and someone dying on a fairground ride called an inverter.

My contention is that it is next to impossible to kill yourself with an inverter (and I have given the exact awkward circumstances how to do it) , yet every other punter insist they are 'highly dangerous' yet cannot provide a cite of *any* deaths, bar the Aussie.

I contend that inverters are as safe as teddy bears, and I still await a cite that they are dangerous.








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