I charged it up an accidently touched the capacitor. I think it interupted my heart. It started beating pretty erratically. I felt real ill for a few hours and my arm went dead. No long term effects 'twitch' 'twitch'. Andrew Evening Mike. Keeping outta trouble eh?? Good evening Skooter, yes I am staying out of trouble. Today is Terry Lingle. There is a reason that the cut off for "public access " is volts Below that if you are healthy and not in water the probability is that you will not be badly hurt by the electricity But the fall that often acompanies a shock also can do serious damage.
Above v and as stated tissue damage is near instantanious permanant damage is almost a given. More people are killed by v than all other voltages combined but then the number of contact incidents is very much higher. Even if you get a shock from a volt circuit it is most likely a volt shock as you must touch both live lines to get the full voltage. It is usually hard to get both hands into that small enclosure. Electricity is always dangerous.
It is best to follow proper safety procedures and de energise the circuit , test that it is truely dead lock it out and tag it so that no one can turn it on with out a lot of effort, Even then treat the wiring with respect to minimize the effect of a shock should you get one. All rights reserved. Yes No. OK Cancel. Skin have two fundamental electrical properties as do all materials in the universe.
They are either mainly "conductors or insulators". All metals are conductors and all insulators are dielectrics. The skin body is mainly an insulator with conductor properties when moist due to water and also salt. This does not mean you can't feel it, but it won't hurt you. So what you felt may have been slightly more or less than this 0. The human body typically has a high resistance when it is dry. As quoted below, it can be as high as , ohms.
This is only 1. Wet or broken skin may drop the body's resistance to 1, ohms," adding that "high-voltage electrical energy quickly breaks down human skin, reducing the human body's resistance to ohms. There are also a lot more variables involved, such as how long you were touching the wire for.
What is the resistance from one hand to another. What were you wearing when you got shocked? One of the other things to consider is where the current actually flowed through your body.
This needs either a big shock to stop the heart, still much more than what can be achieved with V our V in normal isolation conditions or a long exposure so that you would suffocate. And as everyone else, I can testify that I got shocked a handful of times with V AC my mistakes and that I am still living.
But better avoid it. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How did I survive this shock? Asked 4 years, 11 months ago.
Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Mathieu K. JavaProphet JavaProphet 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Yet we live to tell the tale. It tends to be the lethal shock that hits the news stand but the truth is that most shocks are not lethal - just painful at the time and a true learning experience. Show 9 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Electrocution isn't an exact science.
There are multiple things which make a difference: The current which flows through a person depends on the resistance. That in turn depends on whether the skin is wet or dry, the area of skin in contact with the wire, and a lot of other biology things. Among its many talents, the earth makes a brilliant path of least resistance for electrons. It can absorb an enormous number of them — lightning strikes are a doddle. And if you're standing on the earth, and touching a wire with current flowing, you become a very attractive short-cut for those electrons.
Birds can get away with sitting on live power lines because they're not touching the ground, and it's way easier for electrons to move through wire than a bird.
But connecting live current to the earth isn't the only way to get fried, as any number of fruit bats can testify. They don't touch the ground, but their big wings and lousy eyesight make fruit bats a great path of least resistance between two live power lines.
If both their wings just touched the same power line, they'd be fine — wire gives easier passage to electrons than a bat. But two different power lines are never safe to touch because they will never have exactly the same amount of 'push' on electrons. Current will always flow from the one with more 'push' to the other — through a fruit bat, you or whatever conductor is doing the connecting. Of course power lines aren't the only things that can cause electric shocks.
A faulty appliance can be one big live wire, so don't touch one while you're standing on the planet with anything short of serious rubber soles. And don't ever go near a faulty appliance if there's water nearby. Pure water is a lousy conductor, but it's such a great solvent there'll always be plenty of dissolved ions floating around in it — and they conduct current at least as well as you do, you big bag of salt water.
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