"As we all (should) know, it ain't the voltage that does ya in, its the
current."
I understand that the imposition of 60 Hz can cause the heart to fibrillate
(flutter uncontrollably) and that's what does you in.
Geoff, K6TFZ
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Love this thread, makes me feel more 'normal'. However, from an earlier
post...
-Original Message-
"... In power supplies the mains voltage is absolutely deadly."
The father in me yearns to leave this alone, but the physics teacher in me
requires me to set this record straight.
Except
One key point about making mistakes is this: All of us have survived them,
at least so far. Not everyone does.
Ham radio has lost a lot of great ops to falls from towers, slips out of
trees or off roofs and, mostly in the past, electrocution.
Electrocution is not the huge danger it was when we
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