IIRC a "fatal" shock is mroe likely to be a mddling-current one. The
stronger ones tend to self-defibbrilate you.

That's why lightning strike victims often survive.

A BAD shock I got once was when I had a pair of 400uf, 450V capacitors
forming up on the cap tester.
It was up to 450 volts, but still pulling a few milliamps. I went to set it
aside and wrapped one hand around one big aluminum can, other hand around
the other can. I thought both cans were grounded, but somehow got a heck of
a shock! Later on I realized I was chanrging the capacitors in series for
some reason.

Take care,


George

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:08:54 GMT, George R. Gonzalez wrote:

IIRC a "fatal" shock is mroe likely to be a mddling-current one. The
stronger ones tend to self-defibbrilate you.

That's why lightning strike victims often survive.

Is is really? I talked to some guys who made defibrillators once; there was
a defibrillator (a working one) in their lab, for use in case of shock
while working on a defibrillator.

-- Mike --

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:08:54 GMT, George R. Gonzalez wrote:

IIRC a "fatal" shock is mroe likely to be a mddling-current one. The
stronger ones tend to self-defibbrilate you.

That's why lightning strike victims often survive.

Is is really? I talked to some guys who made defibrillators once; there was
a defibrillator (a working one) in their lab, for use in case of shock
while working on a defibrillator.

-- Mike --