What kind of water? With or without salt(s)? If salt is present, then, for DC, you will watch electrolysis. In order to be shocked you have to be part of the circuit: Why should electric current prefer to go inside your fingers and not travel through water? You have to be more specific:
- do you mean absolutely clear water?
- do you mean a DC (direct) or AC (alternating current)?
- do you mean a circuit with public power network? Then, if salt also exists, you are in danger, since AC is grounded and you are probably also grounded.
In any way, be careful... electric power is not a toy!
What kind of water? With or without salt(s)? If salt is present, then, for DC, you will watch electrolysis. In order to be shocked you have to be part of the circuit: Why should electric current prefer to go inside your fingers and not travel through water? You have to be more specific:
- do you mean absolutely clear water?
- do you mean a DC (direct) or AC (alternating current)?
- do you mean a circuit with public power network? Then, if salt also exists, you are in danger, since AC is grounded and you are probably also grounded.
In any way, be careful... electric power is not a toy!
Dear Eddie,
First, you have to be more specific as Demetris said. Then, as Kamal said, can you tell us the answer. It is really a puzzle.
Demetris, it's tap water, it is AC 220 V supplied through drop wires. I believe your answers are in order.
Kamal, Mahfuz, and Hashem, theoretically i have an answer but as Demetris has cautioned, I have not tried it. Perhaps some of our colleagues did try it.
If it is a tap water you can take a 9V battery connect each pole to a cable and then put the two cables inside the water. If you observe bubbles, then your tap water has salts inside, so it is a kind of a conductor. But, AC is a power supply and if you put it inside probably the security of the central electrical panel will go done, due to a short circuit. Ι warn you again: Be careful.
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