-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
It the voltage is 10000 volts, it is always fatal, right? And if you set good enough resistors, then the voltage for the human body itself would be much less than 10000V -- most of the voltage will be taken by resistors themselves.
Right?
Wrong. What kills is not voltage but current. That is why you can safely recieve a static shock (on the order of thousands of volts, but microamperes) and yet still be killed by ordinary AC power (110 volts here, a whole lot of amps available :). - --Elliot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMfBqGiaSlK8942+NAQGVXAQApub7Av5NJhhaT+GFvPrdWsjKdRKkciCn waOH51N6J2WvyZHUIrw8amxFBHmjEGIdu9Bx0yngYh7U+ijW4aCP5bOrzf8WYlla zodx6J+4N6aNYFj1q0gt9QRfrQKN4O3/mp8gx6EsyZJfco7/PR1V7MjWR3qzzOng qpCqPquGoXo= =Nujf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----