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- From: rwed@gnu.ai.mit.edu (N7YVM)
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- Subject: Re: Volts vs. amps
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:46:25 GMT
- Organization: Free Software Foundation
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- In article <C1G52r.HK2@ns1.nodak.edu> jgreff@plains.NoDak.edu (Jason Greff) writes:
- >is the killer. Specifically the minimum is 100 milliamps, it may take
- >more depending on the situation.
-
- Gads. As a former EM3 in the Navy (Electrician) they taught us the minumum
- was 100 ma. As for voltage, thats simply ohms law. 120 volts can kill you
- if you are wet. When you are wet you have lower resistance. 120 volts
- might not kill you if you are dry. Fall across 100,000 volts and you are
- dead, wet or dry. It also depends on where you take the shock. I took
- 15,000 in thru my elbow and out my hand while working on a TV. If it had
- been in my right elbow and out my left hand for any length if time
- I think Id be dead. Your heart cant take much current at all.
- The reason people survive lightning strikes is because the duration of
- the pulse is so short. Current first flows over the outside of the conductor
- before moving in towards the innards of the conductor.
-
- I dont want it to sound like I know all this stuff, on the contrary Im
- just repeating that which has sounded most plausible to me.
-
- Obligatory post:
-
- Can anybody recommend a good book on assembly programming on the 48?
-
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