omegamajor
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It's the current you need to worry about, not the voltage. About 100mA or less directly through your heart will stop it. Around 10mA will start twitching muscles. A static discharge from shuffling your feet and touching a doorknob is thousands of volts, just a tiny amount of current. Human skin provides a high amount of resistance, on the order of megaohms. If you have a cut on your finger and get a static shock through it the shock feels much more substantial than if you didn't have a cut. If you touch 120VAC power you will feel a little buzz, but it won't harm you (unless you have the aforementioned cut on your skin). I've personally touched a cap that was charged to 400V (on accident of course) and received a little bit of a shock, but mostly it was just a strong tingling sensation.
Don't worry about the caps in the SS. They will discharge themselves since they are already in the circuit.
Originally Posted by manaox2 Anything over 25V is dangerous from what I know (not testing that myself), 48V can possibly be lethal. You would feel it if a cap on this project were to discharge into you... |
It's the current you need to worry about, not the voltage. About 100mA or less directly through your heart will stop it. Around 10mA will start twitching muscles. A static discharge from shuffling your feet and touching a doorknob is thousands of volts, just a tiny amount of current. Human skin provides a high amount of resistance, on the order of megaohms. If you have a cut on your finger and get a static shock through it the shock feels much more substantial than if you didn't have a cut. If you touch 120VAC power you will feel a little buzz, but it won't harm you (unless you have the aforementioned cut on your skin). I've personally touched a cap that was charged to 400V (on accident of course) and received a little bit of a shock, but mostly it was just a strong tingling sensation.
Don't worry about the caps in the SS. They will discharge themselves since they are already in the circuit.