elwood-914 |
07-04-2009 07:54 AM |
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Originally Posted by john70t
(Post 4728855)
It's not not the volts(pressure) that kill, it's the amps(flow).
Look up a Faraday cage or the Tesla static electricity light show, and see a display of human skin being saftely next to many XX,000's of volts.... but just good 1 amp or less across the heart will do a person in.
I've heard higher voltage(like Euro 200V) is actually safer and more efficient.
Touch 220V and the body is bounced off. Touch 110V and the body sticks, and frys...
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This is true. In school we learned that being electricuted by low voltage will not stop the heart completely, it will flutter which I was told was harder to revive.
I think it only takes .05 miliamps to be fatal in the right conditions.
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