Xref: utzoo sci.med:5839 sci.electronics:3132 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!mtunx!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.electronics Subject: Re: electric sleep Summary: current, not power Message-ID: <2284@antique.UUCP> Date: 16 Jun 88 00:47:54 GMT References: <22@<1801> <21500051@uiucdcsm> <2548@kitty.UUCP> <1687@sigma.UUCP> <2869@mmintl.UUCP><982@nunki.usc.edu> Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 9 This may be a quibble, but I think that the "kill" quantity, whatever its magnitude, should be in units of current, not power. For instance, if you are hit with a high voltage but through a point of high contact resistance, then most of the power will be dissipated in the contact, giving a nasty heat burn but little electrical damage. -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp "Docking complete... Docking complete... Docking complete..."