Is it more dangerous to touch a "live"electricwire when your hands are dry or wet?

Answer 1

Your skin resistance is greatly decreased when wet. This allows for a greater current to circulate your body and thus is more dangerous.

Answer 2

Touching a live wire is never a good idea. If you are working on it shut the power to that circuit.

Wet is the worst. It increases the conductivity and makes it easier for larger currents to pass through your body.

The most important thing is where the rest of your body is when you are putting a hand on a live wire. If you are standing on something dry like a wooden or tile floor and not touching a grounded metal part like a pipe or faucet then you are not as likely to be the pathway for the current. When it comes in your hand and goes through your heart on the way to the other grounded part of our body that is the way to be killed.

Here are I am talking about the usual voltages of 120 or 240V which can kill you if you complete a circuit in an unfortunate way. When you get up to 600 volts in an industrial situation you would need to be crazy to touch any live wire since your chances of death are very high. When you go near a high voltage distribution wire you are in the kind of situation you read about in the papers where they tell of an electrician who opened a panel with thousands of volts and an arc came out without his touching anything and gave him fatal burns and shock.

Answer 3

First, never touch a LIVE electric wire! I did it before and it's no fun! Second, hands wet makes it worse. Because the skin resistance is too high, but when water covers your hand, not only it provides a larger surface for the electricity to go through and therefore provides less resistance against electricity, but also water can access the less resistive parts of the skin too. Therefore more current can go through and the shock is worse. Electricity can make your muscles contract and sometimes this makes the victim to hold the wire even harder and doesn't let them get rid of the wire and can kill a person. If electricity goes through your legs, your leg muscles contract and can make you jump far!!

Answer 4

It really doesnt matter you are going to be elecrocuted.

Answer 5

i would think it would be the same but why dont you try it see what happens