Since the 2000 (I think) Edition of the National Electrical Code, arc fault circuit breakers have been required in bedroom circuits. If the home has those then there won't be a "leak" problem as the AFCI will trip. They are exceedingly sensitive.archangle wrote: If you have a 120 VAC "leak" in your equipment, it may well continue to operate for years until that one day you happen to be the path to ground.
Yes, you'll probably be safe. Is "probably" good enough for you or your loved ones?
We all live our lives based on "probably" being safe. If we demanded to be safe with 100% certainty we couldn't live. We all run the risk of dying in a car crash. We have a risk of MRSA any time we visit someone in a hospital. We risk salmonella poisoning every time we eat. We risk skin cancer from sunshine every time we go outside. I could go on and on but you get the point. Archangle, I don't think anyone of us on this forum denies the possibility of dire consequences of some of our actions as you so love to give discourses about. We don't mind being reminded occasionally about the possibility of a failure. But what we get tired of hearing is your constant harping as if a possibility is in fact a certainty. Life is fraught with risks. Nothing is certain, not getting killed, not getting sick, not living to 100, not dying from a mosquito bite, nothing. So please, go ahead and give us a scenario that might could happen, but for God's sake stop telling us it is likely to happen. Now, if you have reliable objective statistics to back up a claim that some action has a probability of 20%, or 80%, of occurring then feel free to give us those statistics.
