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From: hughM@sixhub.UUCP (Hugh M Moore)
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Subject: Re: HELP!
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Date: 29 Jan 91 03:49:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.052458.7449@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan24.041804.13890@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan26.041208.25354@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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In article <1991Jan26.041208.25354@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
:"It's not voltage that's dangerous, it's current"
:
:But voltage is the force that causes current!

  You're partly right. Actually what you say is all right, but you're
missing the point. I have a power supply here which is a five volt
supply and will deliver 30 amps. I have another which is 10000 volts,
but will only deliver about five miliamps. It will deliver those ma into
a 20k ohm resistor, or into a dead short, but it won't deliver more than
five ma. If you load it down the voltage drops, because there's an
internal resistor inside in series with the output terminals.

  A normal human being will not be killed by five ma, or even 20. I've
seen the figure 30 ma through the body cavity to do the job. You have to
insert needles into the skin to do this with five volts (if you can do
it at all).

  Go it? A high voltage transformer like a neon sign is intended to not
deliger a fatal shock.
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Hugh Moore ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!hughM [ PhD in '93 ]

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