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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bony1!billg
- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Re: 25KV (was: SHOCKING STORIES)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.151716.9370@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <1992Jul22.145523.261@bony1.bony.com> <1992Jul23.192145.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Jul28.222944.8819@irisa.fr>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:17:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.222944.8819@irisa.fr> saouter@irisa.fr (Saouter Yannick) writes:
- >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.
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- Yes this is true, the "fatality" is caused by the current, not the
- voltage. Rest assured, we haven't mastered the technology yet to move a
- train with milli-amps. I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to recall that a
- typical current in the catenary is somewhere around 50-100 amps.
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