Re: "It's the amps that kill you" (was: Production EVs)

[russell239@juno.com (D. Russell Graves)]

I tend to agree DC does hurt for days on end.
I was bit by lot of Kilovolts DC on a USAF radar modulator and lived to
tell bout it, but I was extremely sore for two day and arm was also
frozen up.  I was switching a range switch pulling out the carbon taps on
a HV meter while powered up.  
But then again early in the century there was big debate over which one
killed best for the new invention called the Electric chair and DC failed
big time so tell me which ones kill and which one hurt and I says DC
hurts and dont wanna die on AC yet but...

-D. Russell Graves
http://www.concentric.net/~russ239


>     DC shocks feel a lot different than AC shocks. AC shocks are 
>like a buzz  and cause your muscles to contract. DC shocks are like a
sharp 
>needle (or > like pulling out hair,) and tend not to cause muscle
contractions. 
>Getting  200 VAC from one hand to the other will generally make you see
stars 
>and sit  you down breathless and dazed. Getting 200 VDC from hand to
hand is 
>painful  and surprizing, but generally not the "[ALT]-[CTRL]-[DEL]" that
an

 the DC one prevented me from moving my arm until
>the caps had discharged through me!
>The DC shock certainly did contract the muscles in my arm!  I had
>strained muscles in my arm for a week after that happened!!!  The AC 
o of my fingers on the same hand.  The AC

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