Water heaters have become almost every household's essential electrical appliances, but some serious electric shock accidents still occur frequently. Because the environment for using electric water heaters is rather special, the user's body is wet and has a small leakage current during use, which may result in danger to life. So today, please talk about water heater experts in the use of water heater errors.
Myth: a qualified water heater = safe bath
Many people think that the product of electric water heaters qualified, there will be no bath to worry about.According to reports, China's standard electric water heater user's home ground wire must be good.And because of historical reasons, many building grounding system is not good, or even Is the lack of, such as fitting the wrong line, aging lines, the private wire, the use of inferior switch sockets, water pipes when the ground wire, etc., which may lead to live ground, resulting in electric shock.In this environment Even a qualified water heater can not guarantee safe bathing.
Myth: unplug the power plug will bath safety
Due to the frequent occurrence of electric water heater electric shock accidents, citizens naturally have concerns about the use of electric water heaters, and some citizens unplug the plugs for bathing after the water heater is heated up. However, the water heater is inevitably connected to the water pipes in addition to the electric circuit In some buildings with poor grounding or no ground connection, some people connect the grounding wire to the water pipe and let the water pipe act as the grounding wire of the building.In this case, if there is any electric leakage in one household, Then the entire building's water pipe will be charged, the user is using the water heater bath, despite unplugging the water heater plug, or water will be imported current injury.