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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:44 +0200, Naga wrote: |
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> On Friday 11 August 2006 13:26, Alan Mckinnon wrote: |
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> > The current drawn through a conductor (in this case a live body) is |
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> > determined by the voltage, and the resistance of the body itself. |
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> And in this case the surface that the body is in contact with. |
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> I other words don't stand in water when you get the shock (but rubber shoes |
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> should work) :) |
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On a side note, when I was still fixing things for a living I used to |
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demonstrate to new trainees how current flow actually worked by |
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deliberately touching the mains live on a running tv set in complete |
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safety. Very very very few of them figured it out :-) The secret: |
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- use one finger of one hand |
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- wooden workbench |
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- shoes |
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alan |
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