Why is it that water causes damage to electrical components?
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Because water cunducts electricity. Thus if you put water on something electronic the power can go wherever the water is, burning whatever it touches.
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Well depends on the max load the circuit can handle. If the circuit can sustain a max load of lets say 10 volts and you push 15 to it, the circuit elements will heat up and fry. Of those elements will include inductors, transformers (up and down) logic controllers, resistors, transistors, capacitors, motors, and a multitude of other components. Lets say computer for example, you would fry the CPU and possibly damage all the attached components! Either way it's a bad situation.\n\nJust increasing the the resistance values of the resistors will not prevent damage. The designing of circuit boards isn't a fly by night type of thing. In some cases you can get seriously hurt or waste alot of money so exercise caution. Good luck.
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Sounds like static electricty, which tends to develop in windy dry conditions.  Check it out.
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have your water tested, it could be a virus, a bacterium, or even lead...have it tested ASAP
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A lot of static electricity in the air can cause "dry lightning".  I assume that is what happened.
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they're equipped with ground/voltage regulators.  All electrical things now are required to have them.  If there was a short (i.e water hit the circuit), the system would realize the increase in voltage and shut off.  They showed this on mythbusters how a new hairdryer shuts off when you drop it in the bathtub.
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All the electrical parts are inside the dryer and can only shock you if submerged in water.  Don't go trying this, could be dangerous to your health.
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No.  The electric heating element is insulated and does not conduct power into the water and surrounding metal containers.
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sub surfice water can erode a road bed and cause sink holes or cracking and pot holes. if it is moving water the channel may get large enough over time to have removed the support under the road
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No, because there are no ions in there.  Add some metals, or salt, or acid/base, and then it will.  In tap water, there are those, so tap water does conduct electricity.
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Water is not a good conductor of electric current it conducts electric current because of the impurities present in it.\n\nWhy?\n\nWith this simple experiment you can verify that the distilled water presents a very low conductivity because the potential of the first circuit is much less than the developed by the battery. The small potential of this circuit is due to the presence of the H+ and OH- ions produced when some molecules of water are dissociated. However, the number of molecules of water that are dissociated is practically negligible, making the distilled water a weak electrons conductor. It is worth noting, that as the distance among electrodes increases, the resistance to the electrons transfer in the distilled water increases considerably. This fact evidences even more the low conductivity of the distilled water.\n\nWhen salt is added (NaCl) to the system, the conductivity of the system increases considerably. The water not only dissolves the salt, as well as it dissociates the salt molecule. The elementary sodium (Na) presents an excess electron and the chloride (Cl) has a strong affinity for electrons. Consequently, after dissociation, the sodium loses an electron to the chloride, forming Cl- and Na+ ions. The presence of these ions increases the conductivity of the water considerably. The positive ions (Na+) migrate to the negative electrode (linked to the pole - of the battery) and the negatives (Cl-) migrate to the positive electrodes (linked to the pole + of the pile). The conductivity of the aqueous solution water/salt is proportional to the ions concentration in the solution.\nWhen you try to measure the conductivity of tap water you can verify that it has higher conductivity in comparison with distilled water because this contains ions (less pure). The tap water has higher conductivity due to the presence of the ions: Ca2+ and Mg2+. And don´t forget, try the science at home!
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to impove the connection:\ncharcoal itself is conductor\nsalt turns water into a conductor
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Answer to the first part of thequestion;  \n\nConsider a water tank full of water.We connect a pump which pumps the water from the tank and delivers it again to the tank. \n The tank will never be empty and the water will be flowing continuously along the pipe connected to the pump and tank.\nIf the pipe connecting the pump and tank has an obstacle say a solid block of wood  which is somehow inserted into the pipe, then there will not be flow of water. But still the pipe and tank will have water but with out  any flow. \n Similarly in an electrical circuit electrons are like water in the tank ;the wire is like the pipe; the battery or cell or generator of electicity is like the pump in our example.\n Electrons flow from one end(tank) of the battery(pump) to the other end (tank) through the wire like water through the pipe.\n If one end of a wire is connected to the battery and the other end is left free,we have to imagine that the free end is further connected to the battery by an imaginary wire made of air.( The only matter that connects the free end to the battey is air) Just like water cannot flow through the wooden obstacle electrons cannot flow through air. Though the wire is full of electrons there will not be any flow of  electrons. \n\nAnswer to the second question,'Y dont they fall when they reach the end.\n\nThe wire is full of electrons even if there is no flow. We shall lift one end of the wire and let  the other end loose. It is natural to expect all the electrons in the wire to fall down due to gravity. But the electostatic force beeing very much stronger than the gravitational force keeps them within the wire. To remove them out we must apply a force atleast equal to the electostatic force. The function of the battery, in fact ,is  to provide such a force.
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This is not recommended, but in the past we shocked fish with a generator. We just hooked a cable up to it and threw the exposed end in the water. I don't know if the new generators have GFCI's on them, but if they do you may have a problem
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(m)\n\n1. VERY PURE water is a poor conductor of electricity. However, very small amounts of impurities, especially salts, greatly increase the electrical conductivity of water.\n2. The main carriers of electrical current are dissolved ions. If a \nbattery is connected to a container of water so that the (+) and (-) poles of the battery are immersed in the water, the positive ions will migrate toward the (-) pole and the negative ions will migrate toward the (+) pole (electrical opposites attract). This closes the\n"switch" and electric current flows through the solution.\n3. Different ions can help carry the electric current, some more / some  less, depending upon their electrical charge and their size. More highly charged,  smaller ions are more efficient carriers of the electrical current.\n4. The higher the concentration of ions, the greater is the conductance of the solution.\n5. There is a complication however, the water and / or certain of the ions may undergo a chemical reaction to one or the other, or both of the electrodes. You may not want to introduce this in the beginning but it does happen.\n6. None of the ion electrical current carriers of salts dissolved in water are as mobile as "free" electrons in a metal are. And the differences are very large. For example, if the conductivity of  VERY PURE WATER is 0.000004 conductivity units, the conductivity of a saturated solution of common table salt NaCl is 23 conductivity units, and the conductivity of a typical metal such as copper wire is 60, 000, 000 conductivity units. So while the\nions in a dissolved salt behave something like "free" electrons, they are very slow and sluggish moving
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Depends on conductivity of water which in turn depends on factors such as -- impurities present in water, temperature of water.
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Firstly, the purer the water, the worse it is to use as a conductor. Mainly, the dissolved conductive elements we find in tapwater increase its conductivity, but are not as effective as say the ones found in saltwater. So, unless you wanted to spend the time and money to dissolve the copper, zinc, lead, and other conductive materials in water that could more easily be ducted into wire, it won't be a good idea.