Doesn't stunt guns produce about 5000 volt? That at least doesn't
kill a person.
Mounir
--- In Electronics_101@y..., Jim Purcell <jpurcell@w...> wrote:
angteng,
Do you know which part of the electricity kills a man, is it the
wattage,
voltage or current? Will 3,000 volts kill a man?
As someone mentioned during the fuze debate, it is probably none of
the above.
It is energy. I suspect a man could withstand 3 kV and the
resulting current,
which is deponent on his skin resistance and body chemistry, for at
least a few
milliseconds. Beyond that it's any body's guess. I had a student
whose little
son got into the power company's electrical box one day and took
many thousands
of volts. He lost an arm and I forget what all else. He is alive
today and
plays sports and wonders what all the fuss is over his remarkable
escape from
death.
Jim
