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- From: jgreff@plains.NoDak.edu (Jason Greff)
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- Subject: Re: Volts vs. amps
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:40:03 GMT
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- In article <1k2150INN3ct@coral.bucknell.edu> rose@bucknell.edu (philip rose `94) writes:
- >I'm sorry, but this is not the truth. It is neither voltage or current
- >alone that kills. Power kills. Power is the product of voltage and current.
- >
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- >Phil Rose
- >rose@coral.bucknell.edu
- Never heard that one before. Are you speaking from experience? I've got
- training as a generator mechanic and I am an electrical engineering
- student specializing in power. Everyone I've ever talked to says current
- is the killer. Specifically the minimum is 100 milliamps, it may take
- more depending on the situation.
-
- From what I've heard the voltage is what makes it hurt, but the current
- does you in. Electric fences have high voltages but low current. This
- product results in so much power. If you increased current while
- decreasing voltage so that the power remained constant, my bet is you
- could find a high enough current to kill.
-
- --
- Jason Greff North Dakota State University - Fargo, North Dakota
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