Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!taro
From: taro@uhccux.UUCP (Taro Nobusawa)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: shock box
Message-ID: <1654@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 19:48:24 GMT
References: <307@trwind.ind.TRW.COM> <4881@videovax.Tek.COM> <1231@uop.edu> <3616@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2945@zodiac.UUCP>
Reply-To: taro@uhccux.UUCP (Taro Nobusawa)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
Lines: 21

In article <2945@zodiac.UUCP> jshelton@ads.com (John L. Shelton) writes:
 
>Two things are required to inflict damage on a human via
>electric shock:
 
>1.  Voltage.  Low enough voltage will not cause damage (at least DC).
 
>2.  Current.  It takes a certain amount of current (I believe 75 ma,
>but don't rely on this) to stop a heart.  Safety-related devices, 

BTW, isn't 60Hz supposed to be a bad frequency to use?


___
|N|


-- 
"Mad as a hen wetter...goodbye and good day.   THPPT" -Opus
Taro Nobusawa  		taro@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
			taro@uhccux.BITNET
Compu$erve 71071,322	{ihnp4,uunet,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!taro