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Tempest1981 on Jan 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Built a Shed (2020)

Imagine a short, so Cat6 is now at 120V. Then imagine someone repairing a Cat6 wall jack. Or a kid with a paper clip.

Household current levels don't need to be flowing for it to be dangerous.

amluto on Jan 6, 2022 [–]

Or just someone touching one end of a network cable. The pins on an 8P8C plug are not recessed very far.

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