4 good tips to avoid electrical equipment accidents in the rainy season
The annual stormy season always leads to high humidity, high water vapor in the house, more serious, prolonged flooding, causing dangerous electrical problems. Let’s learn with AT Vietnam Automatic Equipment Co., Ltd (ATV) the following good tips to avoid unnecessary accidents from electrical appliances in your home.
1. Limit placing socket in low position
Some families have the habit of leaving sockets in low positions such as table legs, chairs, … for convenience. However, these low locations are very susceptible to moisture and steam contamination, especially if your family is in a flooded area, causing a fire situation, dangerous for users.
Electricity agencies warn to limit the use of sockets and electrical equipment at low locations during rainy and stormy times. Please use sockets with a higher position, power lines should also be hung in a high position to avoid leakage causing unnecessary accidents.
2. Pay attention to indoor wall lines
Most houses today use power lines to go inside the wall to ensure aesthetics, but long-term rainstorms make the walls of the house soaked with water, seeping into the power lines, causing a very dangerous fire.
In addition, wall sockets and plugs are also very susceptible to electrification when wet. So you and your family should use them very carefully when heavy rain lasts.
In order to reduce the risk, the wall power lines and sockets should be run at height, the wires must go into the protective gene conduit, avoiding direct contact with the wall of the house.
If your home’s electrical system is old for many years, when heavy rain lasts, please disconnect all electrical breaker to prevent short-term fire and danger. Here’s a great tip for your family.
When the rain stops, please check the connections, lines, electrical sockets carefully, dry the areas that are contaminated with water before closing the circuit breaker, use it again normally.
It is recommended to use guaranteed electrical equipment of reputable companies, design the electrical system and circuit breakers for each floor separately so as not to affect the general life.
3. Pay attention when using electrical equipment in the house
During the rainy season, the humidity in the house increases, and the electrical appliances in the house can be dangerous to cause electrical accidents. It is necessary to ensure dry hands and feet when using household electrical appliances such as rice cookers, irons (irons), microwave ovens, water heaters, electric fans,… and make sure these devices do not stick. water and works fine.
In case of water damage, please dry or temporarily stop using to avoid accidents.
4. Grounding for household appliances
For bulky equipment, close to the ground such as air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, water heaters, electric stoves that are difficult to move to dry areas during storms, it is necessary to carefully check the equipment to ensure the power line and outlet are dry before reuse.
It is recommended to connect the ground wire to the equipment to limit the danger when an electrical leak occurs, to ensure the safety of you and your loved ones when using.
Above are useful information about preventing electrical equipment accidents on rainy days, ATV hopes that this information can help you and your loved ones during this stormy season.
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