Great article. I had an argument with a coworker how a normal breaker works and that it won’t just fail when exceeding the rated amp-age. That it can happily continue for minutes. And of course the biggest misunderstanding: Breakers protect the cables in the wall not humans. That they can do that as well is just a nice side effect.

Never the less, I would still argue to kill the power before stepping into water with an active mains line running through it.

Just a question. How about doing this experiment in 240 land? I would assume the result would be different?

Edit: replaced rated power with amp-age