I totally support Rich - time try your two finger test with a capacitor charged to 20 Joules! It is NOT unpleasant - it Hurts like Hell.
In the 80's we had a 'strange' engineer in our lab that left 2.2 ?F capacitors charges to 300V laying about - until someone grabbed him by the throat! The limit is to prevent death and serious injury. It will not prevent ALL deaths but a 'reasonable' percentage of the normal population. In the same way there are limits set on how many passages an aircraft designer can kill per 1,000,000,000,000 hours of flying. Gregg Gregg Kervill DipIM, MIMgt, MIEEE VP Engineering Test4Safety.com Inc PO Box 310, Reedville, VA 22539. USA Phone ( 804) 453-3141 Fax (804) 453-9039 http://www.test4safety.com/ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
