Squalish
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How so?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's gotten a jolt of mains electricity in one hand (from one finger to another) and come away from it with little more than a bit of pain & a spasm. A finger to finger or wrist to finger circuit exposes a lot less current to the heart than hand to hand.
Caps discharge their energy as quickly as you let them - increase the resistance 10x, you've reduced the current 10x and prolonged the discharge by a factor of 10. To induce heart failure you need ~30ma for several milliseconds.
Originally Posted by colonelkernel8 /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is a myth. Also, about caps, what's particularly dangerous is how quickly they discharge their energy as opposed to a battery or the like. |
How so?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's gotten a jolt of mains electricity in one hand (from one finger to another) and come away from it with little more than a bit of pain & a spasm. A finger to finger or wrist to finger circuit exposes a lot less current to the heart than hand to hand.
Caps discharge their energy as quickly as you let them - increase the resistance 10x, you've reduced the current 10x and prolonged the discharge by a factor of 10. To induce heart failure you need ~30ma for several milliseconds.