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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector
Message-ID: <3663@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 89 19:03:50 GMT
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In article <17660006@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
>
>>	It doesn't matter wether it's 120 or 220, They're both
>>	lethal.  It's not the volts that kill, it's the amps.
>
>Y'know, that last is said often enough that people are starting to repeat
>it as Holy Writ without actually understanding it.

Major power companies repair high-tension (quarter-million-volt) lines
in remote areas by sending cable dogs up in helicopters to work on the
live wires barehanded.

It ain't the volts that kill, it's the amps.

				--Blair
				  "Or, in my case, it's the vertigo..."