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Water's ability to short an L18650 cell?
Personally I no longer use 18650 cells, I use polymer packs with safety circuits.
However having once or twice in the past I have briefly shorted a connection between the positive terminal and the ...
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Extension cord's power socket grounding pin soaked in cleaning agent sud, what is a proper way of cleaning?
I didn't really know what tags to use. Anyways, this might sound stupid, however I was cleaning up something above the extension cord which was laying on the ground, and while I pressed the wipe suds ...
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How can the dielectric constant of water be so high but water on electric devices can cause a short circuit? [closed]
Is it only the fact that pure water has a high dielectric constant and non-pure water i.e. the water that usually causes a short circuit is contaminated and it's the contamination mixture in the water ...
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Avoid fire on a battery-powered device [closed]
I was trying to repair a battery-powered electric razor when I suspect there was a short-circuit.
The device started heating and it began smoking a bit so I took it and put it in a bowl full of water....
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Flooded LAN RJ-45 connector may damage connected router? [closed]
I had an accident in the house and one of the LAN (cat. 6) cables including RJ-45 connector has been flooded. This "flooded" cable, along with other (dry) ones, was connected into a working gigabit ...
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Electricity discharge into water
My question has to do with a piece of equipment in my home, but I thought I would post my question here because I am interested in the behaviour of the electricity rather than anything else.
There is ...
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