Timeline for If you are vacuuming your carpet and you wrap the cord around your body do you become a magnet?
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 15:43 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | You are using an AC voltage (and thus an AC current). How would you expect it to work without a DC current? | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 7:01 | comment | added | iheggie | You can get a measurable magnetic field from wrapping an appliance cord in a circle if the current in the cord is unbalanced. For example, this happens whilst someone (or the bathtub lol) is being electrocuted. (Hopefully you have a RCD safety switch so 300 ms or so later it trips and cuts the power). Another unlikely scenario is for the appliance to be hit by lightening at the same time you are playing hola hoops with its cord - that would also induce current going in the same direction in all of the conductors of the cord. | |
| S Sep 15, 2016 at 12:31 | history | suggested | A.L | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Use a thumbnail instead of the full-size image (in particular it's better for slow connections)
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| S Sep 13, 2016 at 9:23 | history | suggested | Bill Michell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Incorporated BowlofRed's comment
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| Sep 13, 2016 at 1:41 | vote | accept | Shawn Anderson | ||
| Sep 12, 2016 at 19:40 | history | answered | Lambda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |