Doug, et al, The IEC 61010 reference (A3) that you made is just the body model circuit from IEC 60479. It has been around for most of the last 50 years and is commonly used as the basic model for the human body in electric shock analysis. The basic standards - IEC 60479, IEC 60990, etc - normally use 1MHz as the upper limit (not always clearly specified) in their work. Above that frequency the issues are considered to be more EMC related (whether that's correct or not).
Ongoing issues could force reconsideration of higher frequencies sometime in the future. Currently there are enough issues on the table to keep everyone busy for quite some time yet. Electric burn is usually considered a contact phenomenon at 'high frequencies' - 10's of kHz or more. More importantly for these circuits is that they are established in such a way that a person could still let-go when the circuit is contacted. :>) br, Pete Peter E Perkins, PE Principal Product Safety Engineer PO Box 23427 Tigard, ORe 97281-3427 503/452-1201 fone/fax p.perk...@ieee.org - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc