With Care, please

[Handley_Page]

Please read this.

I realise that the USA is not Australia, but the closing line probably says it all:-

"Australia's standards on most matters are harmonised with those of other nations, so the warnings from Fair Trading probably apply everywhere: cheap electrical kit isn't worth the risk, so don't cost yourself your life by saving a few pennies.
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[PayDay]

Didn't Australia just empty a bunch of savings accounts due to 'inactivity' ?

 

[PayDay]

Didn't Australia just empty a bunch of savings accounts due to 'inactivity' ?

http://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/news/government-grab-for-inactive-bank-accounts

 

[FantasyXY]

Please read this.

I realise that the USA is not Australia, but the closing line probably says it all:-

"Australia's standards on most matters are harmonised with those of other nations, so the warnings from Fair Trading probably apply everywhere: cheap electrical kit isn't worth the risk, so don't cost yourself your life by saving a few pennies.
"

This report seems like it might be part of an urban legend or something. The deadly voltage/current would have had to come from the PC, not the USB device.

As for the voltage available on a USB port (again, the PC has the port) contact with your body would feel like a 9volt battery on your tongue. At it worst case it would irritate you, not kill you.

Even if it could have somehow gotten crossed up with AC line power, how would the exceptionally small wires on headphones carry enough current to "burn one's ears" without burning themselves in two first.