Am Son, 2003-03-30 um 22.31 schrieb Mike Beattie: > [folks, it's considered polite to trim quotes] > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:31:49PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > shock because the insulation tester doesn't deliver much Amps. > > "deliver much current (Amps)." would be a better way to write that. Thanks. I'll try to remember that. > > While a shock < 300VAC doesn't harm you most of the time, 4KV are > > guaranteed 100% deadly. > > Its the Volts that Jolt, and the Mills that Kill. > Meaning milliamps, a measurement of current that rhymes with Kill :P Of course i had "mains" in mind. Not some 20mA electric fence ;) > Honestly? I'm quite capable of withstanding 6-8kV from an electric fence, so > I imagine I'd be quite able to withstand much much higher. and you can. it's > just not advisable. It hurts, and does weird stuff to your body. But, it > *wont* kill you, unless you've got a lot of current flowing. Well that depends, <50mA can kill you if the current flows through your heart. > > There's nothing like repairing an AC adapter and getting the shock of > > your live because it has 3 (!!!) 1F capacitors in parallel. > > Man 230VAC *do* hurt ;) > > Friend of mine works at an electronics repair store here.. Once his boss was > working on an appliance, and forgot to turn the power off when he went away > to do something else. Came back, put his hand in the wrong place, and just > quietly said. "Oh, shit. Mains." Shit happens ;-) -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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