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r/explainlikeimfive • … • u/FeanorEvades

ELI5: How do charging cables not shock you or start fires?

Connectors like the Apple Lightning or USBC have all of their metal parts exposed where you can touch them, but they won’t shock you. How does it send electricity to my phone but not to me or anything else it touches?

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