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Amps kill, not volts. Hence high voltage low amp Tesla coil spark shows.
by 0n34n7 5y ago
Amps kill, not volts. Hence high voltage low amp Tesla coil spark shows.
- IntrepidWorm 5y agoThats not quite accurate- it is true that high amp current is deadly in many scenarios, but it takes both amps and volts to kill. High amp, high voltage current is a killer for sure, but high current at sufficiently tiny voltages is not necessarily deadly. Similarly, high voltage at low currents is usually not deadly (but can be very painful).
- CamperBob2 5y agoHigh voltage from a Tesla coil not only has low average current, but is subject to the skin effect. So while it can still cause a painful shock to your superficial sensory nerves, not much of that energy ends up in contact with the motor nerves. TL,DR: you probably don't want to be shocked by a big Tesla coil, even though it won't kill you.
- Dylan16807 5y agoYour comment is completely irrelevant to wall sockets because they can all supply more than a tenth of an amp.
- bigDinosaur 5y agoYou need to be introduced to a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg