"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:56:26 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

The worst shock I ever received was from a high power, high voltage DC
power
supply. 12,000 volts with current capacity of 1.5 amps.

Same here - lower voltage and amperage - 10Kv at about an amp.

Started at my right wrist and out through my finger tips.

What's funny is that every once in a while, the hand feels like it's
twitching really fast, but you can't see it. Another interesting side
effect is that it never seems to warm up - it always feels like it's
cold, but it's not.

Weird.

I saw a magician (I think it was the Mindfreak guy) get hit with
20,000,000 volts, but they never said how many amps.

I don't know how true this is, but I've been to a trauma seminar where
the presenter told of a guy who had 100 Kv go through him at a very
low amperage - like milliamps and walked away with only burn marks to
show for it.

Couldn't prove it by me.

Guy in my reserve unit was a electric company technician. Fell off a ladder
at a substation and barely survived landing on a big capacitor. Burned a
large hole in his chest. I can remember the the GE road show coming to my
highschool and they generated lots of volts and not amps as a static charge
and did not kill anybody. Made the hair standup.