Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence

[Tidybuoy]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

DOOOD. Thats what I posted.

opps! I guess I didn't read the whole thread - didn't mean to double up.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

+1, it's the amperage that kills, not the voltage.

John heard right, it's hard to pull your hand off of the tweezers when you jam it in the wall outlet. That happened when I was 4 or 5, haven't been right since.

Thats why those of us who work with or really understand electricity never "grab onto" something that could be live. ALWAYS touch it with the back of your fingers as your auto nerve reaction is to close your hand when hit with a shock, which would disconnect you from the power source.

[ruf-porsche]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

+1, it's the amperage that kills, not the voltage.

John heard right, it's hard to pull your hand off of the tweezers when you jam it in the wall outlet. That happened when I was 4 or 5, haven't been right since.

What haven't been right, the electrical outlet or you?

LOL

[elwood-914]

Originally Posted by john70t

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...

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.