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While not low voltage, I remember reading in the '60s in Scientific
American an article which mentioned how many milliamps of current was enough to be felt / dangerous / deadly, etc. It mentioned that substantially larger currents could sometimes even be safer as they could cause involuntary muscle contractions which would interrupt the current flow. The example given was of a worker at a high-rise construction site in New York who was changing out of his work clothes at the end of his shift in a temporary shack that also housed the site electrical power connections. While doffing his trousers he accidentally backed into a high voltage panel. An estimated 60 amperes passed from one buttock to the other through muscles that immediately straightened, propelling him through the shack and its door and into two lanes of road traffic which immediately stopped. Because the current didn't pass through any vital organs, he only sustained surface burns and various bruises and scrapes though the electrical panel manufacturer's logo is now mirror-image tattooed to his behind. I've *gotta* find the source of all this... Jim Horn, WB9SYN/6 |
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