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I’ve always wondered about microphones and their safety at outdoor concerts. I particularly remember seeing the Black Crowes and how the lead singer would be bare footed with a microphone. I just know I wouldn’t want to screw around barefooted in the rain with a microphone, GFCI or not.
Not that I would even want to test it, but say the cord were grounded as well as the outlet, would the pastor have been electricuted anyway?
Wow, he was in water? Ouch.
I feel horrible for the pastor and his flock. Terrible thing to see. I guess the one good thing is that this may motivate people to GFCI some more outlets. I know it is one of the finest uses of $8.
I wonder how many amps the mike had serving to it and whether it was served by a breaker or a fuse. I mean, I’ve been tagged a few times (in the beginning of my electrical forays) and have found 20 amp or less is a good wake up call but not deadly. Not that electricity is anything to fool with, no doubt, but how many amps were going to the outlet that served the mike? Why didn’t a breaker break?
GFCI is most certainly one of the best fixes for damp areas (I don’t care if the outlet is 6 feet from a basin or not, if the general area is wet I go with GFCI’s), but I wonder if there were other wiring issues that contributed to this tragedy. I know that this incident has caused me to switch to GFCI for an outlet outside a bathroom door in my home now.
GFCI is an excellent idea and an easy solution. But I bet there are other electrical issues that contributed to that man’s death. Or maybe I’m missing something here because I’ve never dealt with microphones and don’t understand their unique dangers.
