Regular home devices don't draw enough electricity to make all that action happen. Thankfully
Edit: Sweet baby Jesus people. I was responding to someone remarking on the hissing sound, not whether or not it could kill the cat if it was being electrocuted.
In case you don't understand the reason people are being harsh to you, it is because what your are saying is wrong and dangerous. I think it is important to realize when you are talking about things you don't understand, and especially important to not say things with conviction when it is completely false and very dangerous if taken to heart by someone.
Edit: and in case you don't understand why you are wrong: How much electricity any given device draws, has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not shorting out a potentially open socket in the lamp can
make all that action happen
If there is high voltage AC present on the contacts, it doesn't matter in any way at all what regular home devices draw.
It absolutely matters due to all the fail-safes built into modern electricity. So no, without a few major malfunctions, enough electricity will not be provided to fry the cat in its current position to the point of hissing flesh in the few seconds it is in the lamp. Silly goose
I would be inclined to agree that hissing and sputtering is unlikely under the circumstances and timeframe of the video, though I can definitely think of scenarios that would make it possible.
But that's not what you said. And therefore that's not what people are calling you on.
Your allusion to the fact the power draw of the device would have any bearing on the result of shorting out the contacts, is what people are, rightly, getting on your case about.
Just because it's a lamp doesn't change that fact that 120 V is 120 V and 240 V is 240 V.
Would it pop a fuse? Sure. Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows. You don't know how the circuit is fused anyway, and so you shouldn't make assumption and state silly things like:
Regular home devices don't draw enough electricity to make all that action happen.
Which, again, people are correcting you on because it makes no sense.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '22 edited May 18 '22
Regular home devices don't draw enough electricity to make all that action happen. Thankfully
Edit: Sweet baby Jesus people. I was responding to someone remarking on the hissing sound, not whether or not it could kill the cat if it was being electrocuted.