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Subject: Re: I need a telephone ring detector chip
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 14:40:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 14:40:23 1987
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Summary: Lowest documented electrocution voltage


A few years back I took an EE course on machinery.  A safety
indoctrination was imposed on us in the lab so that  we would
respect the equipment.

The instructor claimed that the lowest known substantiated voltage
to have caused death by electrocution was 56 vdc.  He didn't offer
any documentation, but it seems believable that you could get
enough current to stop your heart under prine circumstances such as
stnading in salt water and grabbing wires very tightly.

I seriously doubt that a poor little .22 uF capactior charged up to
50 volts would have much chance at being lethal, as long as it was
disconnected from the original voltage source.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH 44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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