maybe I'm confused.. But.. I'm assuming the priest did this before and had no mishaps.. and why was there an electrical current on the mic? I can understand if he dropped it into the tub.... Or maybe I didn't read carefully, but it sounds like there was a current that was being conducted just by touching the mic?

 

I heard about this on the morning news. Truly sad that a man of god is taken so young.

 

microphones, unless theyre the wireless kind (b/c they use batteries), will always have a flowing current. thats how it reproduces the sound, by detecting the movement in air caused by sound waves then translating it into electric signals. im guessing his hand was pretty wet and when he reached over to grab the mic, the water flowed into the diaphragm and got the current flowing right into his body. and yeah, had be been using wireless, none of this wouldve happened.

at least it wasnt a condenser mic.

 

:lmfao:

I am going to send this one in for a Darwin award.

Anyone who takes a live wired mic into a pool of water was bound to die somewhere in the near future. Sucks that his family has to deal with it but sometimes stupid should hurt.

 

that's terrible. i would have thought that a microphone, wired or no, would be a pretty low-current device. i guess it wasn't, unless there was some electrical problem. but what do microphones need that kind of current for?

 

To transmit the tones to the soundboard and from the soundboard to the speakers.

Do you really think that is done with no power at all? I mean hell if thats the case then why do people buy amplifiers for their house and their cars? It's the same priciple.

 

yeah i agree thats its sad and all, but :doh:

 

I do it all the time, and I'm okay. :af:

 

did i say that they'd work with no power at all? i just thought it wouldn't be that high of a current. you can touch speaker wire, rca, and phono plugs freely (coming out of your amplified receiver) without being electrocuted. they're not amplifying power, they're using electricity to amplify a sound wave that would otherwise be too weak for speakers to reproduce. the microphone itself should be a pretty low current device - it's possible to power them with a few batteries. on the amplifier side, there is probably a lot more electrical current flowing, but you'd have to immerse the amp in water to be shocked by that.