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Right, but how many amps are flowing through a wire isn't going to change how badly it electrocutes you.
by TD-Linux 11y ago
Right, but how many amps are flowing through a wire isn't going to change how badly it electrocutes you.
- vl 11y agoActually, it's other way around - amps matter a great deal. 400 volts with low amps feels like a sting. I've touched 25K volt contact once (by mistake), while unpleasant (and some damaged skin), managed just fine - cause very low amps.
- TD-Linux 11y agoI think what you're after is that the impedance matters a great deal - a high voltage but high impedance source will drop in voltage a lot and not deliver a large current into the body. In both examples I gave, the PSU DC bus and the car, both are much lower impedance than the human body and the difference is likely negligible.