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On 5/17/2010 5:07 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 17/05/2010 12:51 PM, Warp wrote:
>> For example, ask anybody, an expert or layman, why you can die from
>> touching an electrical wall socket (which has at most 230 volts), but
>> usually not from an electric cattle fence (which has tens of kilovolts)
>> and you won't get a straight, rational answer. I have yet to get a
>> proper answer from anybody (which wouldn't seem to violate the basic
>> "U=RI" formula).
>>
>
> It is all to do with current and the path it takes. Cattle fences have a
> limited amount of current and it is dc. Domestic supplies are ac and
> although the current is limited it is in the region of amps. It is the
> current that kills you. More importantly id the current passed through
> your heart the ac component disrupts the electrical signals to the heart
> and in the heart so it starts to fibrillate that is the signals to
> better as it is his subject.
>
Mind, a 9 volt battery will do the same thing, but you have to have
direct contact to your insides, since the skin has too much resistance.
Apparently, there is a standing rule on ships that you *do not* stab
yourself with leads, connected to a 9 volt battery, precisely due to
some moron trying this. Then again, I may just be propagating a rumor of
something that happened. But, someone who was in the military told me
about it.
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