Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcdj!myers From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Re: Touching a "hot" connector Message-ID: <17660007@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Date: 8 Aug 89 18:00:50 GMT References: <248@sopwith.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO Lines: 16 >>contact as you would need to check out for good on 120. I = E/R, so any time >>you set up a situation where you can get 100 mA through the heart, well, >>please smile and leave a happy-looking corpse. >I believe your presumption that all currents above a threshold are lethal >is incorrect. What I recall is that currents within a fairly narrow >range induce ventricular fibrillation and are potentially lethal. Once you >exceed this range, higher currents are actually LESS dangerous since they Technically you are, of course, correct - but are you willing to bet your life on the hope that the current will exceed the upper end of that range? Bob Myers KC0EW HP Graphics Tech. Div.| Opinions expressed here are not Ft. Collins, Colorado | those of my employer or any other myers%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com | sentient life-form on this planet.