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What happens if someone touches a high voltage wire?
If they are grounded they get an electric shock or electrocuted. If they are not grounded or in simultaneous contact with the neutral wire, nothing. That's why birds can sit on a high voltage wire and survive; they are not grounded.
When birds sits on a cable it gets shocked by a current?
In simple words we can say that when birds sit on the single conducting wire then there is not closed path&when it touch both conductor at a time then closed path forms & birds die due to shock
Why can birds sit on a wire without getting an electric shocked?
You only get an electric shock if you are touching both the ground and the electric wire, (or close enough to both for the electricity to arc) Birds sat on electricity cables are not close enough to the ground for the electricity to arc, therefore they do not get shocked.
Why are birds not shocked when standing on an electrical pole?
you have to be touching the gound and the wire for it to kill------- i mean shock you
When you touch the high voltage wires you feel current but when birds sit on them they do not feel currentwhy?
Because you're standing on the ground. But the bird contacts only the wire, sothere's no path through the bird for current to flow from the wire to anywhere else.
What does it mean when you see black birds on a wire with a white bird in the middle of them?
It's a sign of hope that segregation is over
What do you sit on that starts with the letter N?
Birds sit on a nest.
A wire home for birds?
It is a birdcage.
Why do birds sleep while flying?
they sit
Something to sit on starting with n?
Birds sit on a nest. It begins with the letter n.
Why dont birds die when landing on electrical cables?
High voltage electricity can kill if it passes trough your body. When birds sit on the power cable, the electrical current cannot pass trough their body because no part of their body is touching the ground or any other wire.
What actors and actresses appeared in Birds on a Wire - 2011?
The cast of Birds on a Wire - 2011 includes: Paddy Dean as Pa Magdalena Dolna as M
