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- From: francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Francis Vaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Shocking stories
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 09:18:55 GMT
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- > -=> Nicholas J Feliccia spoke of "Shocking stories" <=-
-
- > Ok. I want to know from the net people. What is the largest voltage
- > shock you have ever received (and survived.) I am not talking about
-
- This is probably not a totally sensible question. The criterion is
- too vauge. Personally I have happily sunk current from a Tesla
- Coil generating many hundreds of thousands of volts, but we all know
- that that is cheating since the current is miniscule and the skin effect
- stops any current flowing anywhere it might do any harm.
-
- A friend of mine was demonstrating a Tesla Coil many years ago
- for a TV science show, the coil was driven by a serious induction
- coil, one capable of generating a six inch spark at much more
- dangerous (that is low) frequencies. He was wearing a microphone
- around his neck and accidentally brushed the wrong part of the
- setup, the arc hit his hand, and then used the mic cable as the
- rest of its run. Apparently it hurt quite a bit.
- The current is still too low to be lethal.
-
- What now? You might define the contest to be one of those that have
- survived the most lethal contact with electricity, but one could argue
- that since they survived, it couldn't have been a lethal contact :-)
-
- Anyone that has survived a lightning stike must win with no
- possible argument. Lightning is a pretty strange beast however.
- People have survived unscathed by the bolt, unscathed that is
- except for the burns on one wrist and their thighs. That is where
- their watch and the coins in their pockets melted.
-
- Mind you Marc Evans and his contact with a 44kV line must rate
- pretty well. Not many live to tell of such deeds.
-
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- Francis Vaughan
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