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Baby boy and electrical outlet

 

Baby boy and electrical outletA nozzle made with your hands will protect a small child from electric shock

It is known that children like to touch sockets with their fingers, insert cloves and scissors there. They probably subconsciously try to imitate their parents in this way. In this case, the child’s hands may be exposed to electric current. And needles, small pins, paper clips, screws, screws and nails can remain inside the electrical outlet and cause a short circuit in it. At the same time, a short circuit can be a source of fire in your apartment. To prevent this, of course, you can install a factory outlet with a fuse, or you can make such protection yourself.

To do this, it is necessary to prepare a protective disk made of thin plastic with a thickness of 2-3 mm, dimensions along the inner diameter of the socket for the plug in the socket. Drill two holes for the plug in our disk - false panel (they must be the same size as the holes in the socket) and one in the center, for the fixing screw.

We install this protection to the outlet. We take its own fixing screw and fasten this disk to it. When you are not using the outlet, simply displace it - turn the disk around its axis and the holes will be offset relative to the sockets of our outlet. The plug cannot be inserted into the openings of the outlet. And, on the contrary, when we turn on the electric appliance, we turn the protection disk until the holes match.

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Baby boy and electrical outlet

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    # 1 wrote: Arthur Khalilov | [quote]

     
     

    Electric current poses a real threat to young children! Do not allow children to turn on and off their TVs, tape recorders, lamps. It should not be allowed that among children's toys there are electric appliances, lamps, as well as cords, with the help of which they can plug them into a power outlet. It is necessary to ensure that children do not pick up the cords in their hands or mouth, do not touch sockets, extension cords and other electrical devices in the apartment. In children's rooms, use sockets with protective curtains or, in extreme cases, plastic inserts into sockets.
    Children can be seriously injured by faulty Christmas tree lights. Sometimes, due to damage to the insulation of the wire, the raw wood of the Christmas tree is connected to the circuit and children get a serious injury. It happens that during a short circuit in the cotton wool wires, hung on the branches of a Christmas tree ignites and leads to fire and burns to children.
    Most importantly, for electrical safety, you must always monitor the insulation of electrical wiring and electrical appliances, especially this must be carefully done in those places where children are!

     
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    # 2 wrote: MaksimovM | [quote]

     
     

    There are also sockets for domestic use with protective curtains that open only when both shutters are pressed, that is, when the appliance is turned on. In this case, the child will not be able to insert any objects into the outlet.

    Well, do not forget about protective shutdown devices in the apartment shield. It is necessary to choose an RCD in such a way that it provides maximum protection for a person from electric shock.

    The most reliable option for protecting a child is to de-energize the outlets by turning off the corresponding circuit breakers in the distribution panel. For example, turning off the outlet, which is located in close proximity to the crib.

     
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    # 3 wrote: Qwert | [quote]

     
     

    1. turn the disk on the outlet - an elementary task for the child who has mastered the insertion of foreign objects into it.
    2. the insertion of ONE object is not as dangerous as two, the current goes along the circuit - the floor is not so big, but there is a lot of screeching, and the child will not be able to climb for a long time ... again, the RCD cuts off the electricity.
    3. children get used to inserting TWO objects at once with protective curtains, which is much more dangerous, since they are usually inserted with different hands, and the current flows through the ARM-ARM circuit through the body, and there may be no current leakage (non-conductive floor) and The RCD will not work.
    So think about whether to install protected sockets or not :(

     
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    # 4 wrote: | [quote]

     
     

    Ideally, when designing wiring, you need to minimize the number of outlets in the children's room and put each outlet on its own machine in the dashboard. Those. the socket is not needed, it means that it is disconnected Well, explain to the child how all these experiments can end.