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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
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Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
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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.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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