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- From: wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.110618.41806@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 11:06:18 CDT
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- >Perhaps one shouldn't be bragging - it might prompt some bozo out there to try
- >and better the "record". Surely the largest shock _anyone_ has ever received
- >is already documented in the Guiness book of records:
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- It seems like I had read a Guiness book awhile back that stated the largest
- shock ever recieved and the guy actually survived (short of lightning of course
- ;-) was 375,000 volts from a power transmission line at Davis dam on the
- Colorado river. It didn't go into detail of what the shock did to this chap,
- but I'm sure it was nasty ! ! ! Considering that judicial execution by the
- electric chair is (don't quote me on this) 2200 vac at 5 amps, this guy that
- got hit by 375 KV has got to hold the record for being the luckest guy alive as
- well !
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- -=-=- Wes =-=-=
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