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Yes, 2 or 3 times in the past 24 years. It sucks. I've been hit with
around 600 volts 1 time, but it was from hand to arm (same limb) and it
only hurt, didn't do any real damage. That sucked too.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 2:36 PM
> To: MOTM List
> Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Cabinet Power - How to do it.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Schabtach <adam@...>
> Is there any truth to the story that 110V is more likely to 
> kill you than really big voltages?
> 
> No, wives tale.  BUT, what is true is that low secondary 
> voltage cause most of the electrocutions statistically.  That 
> is because of frequency of contact.  While, I do not have any 
> data to give you (nor does it likely exist), I can say that 
> fatality from 120 volts is not the norm from contact. We 
> assume that many 120 volt contacts go unreported.  Anyone 
> here ever shock themselves?
> 
> However, contact with what we call primary voltages (2400 VAC 
> and above) are always reported because someone is going to 
> the hospital.  The most common distribution voltage used in 
> the US varies around 13 KV phase to phase and 7500 volts 
> phase to ground.  What what I have seen over 28 years of 
> following such things is that well over 50% of contacts are 
> fatal.  Those that are not fatal usually result in severe 
> disability (loss of body parts at the entrance and exit 
> points for the current). Severe burns are the normal in all cases.
> 
> Larry Hendry
> 
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>  The story goes that if you bridge a large potential
> with some part of your body, the physiological reaction is 
> likely to blow you right out of the circuit fairly quickly; 
> whereas if you insert yourself as a conductor of 110V, you'll 
> twitch around a bit but will stay in the circuit long enough 
> for your heart to fibrillate and shut down, your flesh start 
> to cook, etc.?
> 
> --Adam
> (who really doesn't like messing with AC, and kept the AC 
> wiring in his cabinet as simple as possible: two wires 
> between the power supply and an integrated switch/fuse/AC 
> power cord receptacle, mounted on the rear. Big wires, nicely 
> shrink-wrapped.)
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