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From: howard@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Howard F. Steel)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Electrocution -- Is this possible?
Message-ID: <326@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 12:51:26 GMT
References: <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: howard@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Howard F. Steel)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU> ramsey@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ramsey W. Haddad) writes:

>"Convicted Murdered Electrocutes Himself on Prison Toilet"
>
>I find this very surprising.  Do television earphones really put out
>enough amps to do this?

Amps aren't needed. A fault introducing line voltage to one side of the
headset can do you in with milli-amps. If you get it under your skin (or gums)
Micro-amps can do it. The safe level of leakage current from modern equipment
is considered to be only 3.5 milli-amps.

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