Re: "It's the amps that kill you"

["Steve Marks" <psmarks@home.com>]

>Robert McDonald wrote:
>
>> The AC shock threw me off the contacts, whereas the DC one prevented me
>> from moving my arm until the caps had discharged through me!
>
> Good ole' Mr. Campbell, my junior high physics teacher agreed with
>this and warned us that DC was far more dangerous to contact due to muscle
>contraction. He was also easily distracted and appeared a bit confused at
>times, so he may have been mistaken I suppose. He also taught us that the
>horsepower scale was based on a very weak horse that was used for the
>measurements and warned us to put high altitude jets in our carbs at
>Boulder's mile-high altitudes.

>Seeya,
>John
>

Maybe good ole' Mr. Campbell is a testament to just how dangerous AC can be
=^)