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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!irisa!irisa.fr!saouter
- From: saouter@irisa.fr (Saouter Yannick)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: 25KV (was: SHOCKING STORIES)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.222944.8819@irisa.fr>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:29:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Jul22.145523.261@bony1.bony.com> <1992Jul23.192145.1@research.ptt.nl>
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- In article <1992Jul23.192145.1@research.ptt.nl>, walvdrk@research.ptt.nl (KEES VAN DER WAL) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul22.145523.261@bony1.bony.com>, billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill
- |> Gripp) writes:
- |>
- |> > natural reaction was to grab that wire so he wouldn't fall. Only
- |> > problem was that wire provided 11kVAC to drive the electric trains. He
- |> > said his brother only survived because the path the current took through
- |> > his body did not pass through his heart.
- |>
- |> This morning there was a story on the BBC-news that a boy survived a 25KV shock
- |> from an overhead railway line. I didn't catch how he came into contact with the
- |> line; he's in hospital now.
- |>
- |> <kees>
-
- Voltage in itself does not mean anything: I've heard of a man having taken without
- unloading it a Wimshurt engines which can produce much more voltage, in fact at least 100
- kV and sometimes up to 1 MV. He did not even fall uncouncious. In the other side, I've
- read that voltage of electrical chair is 7000 V.
-
- Is there anyone here to explain all the ways of dying upon electrical shock (tetanos of
- the heart, burning of the heart or brain ...) ?
-
- saouter@sigle.irisa.fr
-