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[zennzzo]

googled this up

A GFCI monitors the amount of current flowing from hot to neutral. If there is any imbalance, it trips the circuit. It is able to sense a mismatch as small as 4 or 5 milliamps, and it can react as quickly as one-thirtieth of a second.

Great idea when we are up to our elbows in water...

 

[andyjs]

Nup but in 25 years I have been shocked about 10 times by broken heaters / lights in contact with water spry etc... haha i am not dead yet

I'm pretty surprised I've only been shocked the one time, but I've had much worse. For example: I'm currently in a field ichthyology course and we've been doing some electrofishing. A tip: contrary to what some people may think, electrofishing probes can still shock when not under water. Removing a fish stuck to the probe when someone is still pressing the switch is quite painful

 

[zennzzo]

I'm pretty surprised I've only been shocked the one time, but I've had much worse. For example: I'm currently in a field ichthyology course and we've been doing some electrofishing. A tip: contrary to what some people may think, electrofishing probes can still shock when not under water. Removing a fish stuck to the probe when someone is still pressing the switch is quite painful

I've seen State Fisheries dept. doing fish counts near the fish ladders. We're talking 25-50lb Chinook Salmon in a 25x 25 foot area, tip over and act like they were struck by lightning...they would net them, and strip the eggs and milt. They'd release the Silvers and other Trout. It didn't take too long for them to recover...I couldn't imagine what the ZAP would be like holding the probes directly...