Eh I've gotten 300 volts no big deal. Think it was DC. AC is harder to let go off iirc.
Pops is an electrician (I’m an “audio electrician”), and he always told me to touch with the back of your hand so you just fall, hopefully away. Also, AC swings to 0v, so you got 60 short chances a second to leggo. He always mentioned how DC will just lock your muscles up.
Back of your hand because the power will cause your muscles to contract and grip the wire of touching with the inside of your hand.
Yeah I sorta pretended to be an electrician for 2.5 years. Made decent money too.
DC is how defibrillators work. stops the heart (contracts) then releases it and hopefully normal rhythm follows. 440 AC will knock you away where 120 AC will hold you. It's the frequency that does you in but it usually has to travel through your body rather than just through your hand.
Yes also I heard it was a common hollywood misconception to defib on flatlines, apparently they use drugs for flatlines(like artificial adrenaline I think?) and defibs are for irregular dangerous heart rhythms.
Feel free to add on anyone more well versed in this.
Oh I've gotten over 2,000 volts DC before, off a He/Ne laser power supply I was mishandling, but fortunately for me it was operating at about .0015 amps. Still felt like I'd been shot with buckshot though.
Yeah those amps'll get ya
yep, it's the amps that'll kill ya rather than the voltage. can't have one without the other though.
Not that I've tested it. But I'm pretty sure it's that watts.
Watts = Voltage * Amps
That's how much energy you're actually getting hit by. The way I've had it explained to me is. Voltage is the diameter of the pipe, amps is how fast it is flowing through it. Watts is how much total volume is flowing over time.
How often do you get shot?
You can see the effects of buckshot on another and therefore have some idea of the sensation if you're not an autistic jackass.
DC is what won't let go because it's Direct Current. Alternating Current will zap you and immediately let you go.
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