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"Whiskers" <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2008-11-11, Peter Hucker <none@spam.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:48:40 -0000, Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-11-10, Peter Hucker <none@spam.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:16:47 -0000, Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 2008-11-08, catchme <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>> john downie2 wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> - but it isn't the Watts that really
>>> hurt, or even the Volts; it's the Amps you really need to be careful 
>>> with.
>>
>> It's both.  1 billion amps at 0.5 volts definitely won't do you any harm
>> - mainly because you have too much resistance to conduct 1 billion amps
>> without a much bigger voltage.  I'd actually go for the watts being the
>> best measure of danger (but you have to take into account how many watts
>> you will dissipate, not how many are available).  I can draw 5kW off a
>> decent car battery into an invertor to power mains appliances, but if I
>> touch the two terminals, I feel nothing, and I certainly don't dissiapte
>> 5kW!
>
> [...]
>
> You can touch the 12V battery terminals reasonably safely, but don't try
> it with the 240V terminals.  That voltage is well in excess of the body's
> 50V limit for being a non-conductor, and the battery can deliver plenty of
> Amps to be lethal.  It isn't the 240V that kill, it's the 21A.

This is unmitigated nonsense. You clearly have little understanding of how 
the terms that you are bandying about, relate to one another, and more 
importantly, to current flow within the human body. I don't mean to be 
offensive, but there's a good old phrase which goes something like -

"When the hole that you're digging gets too deep to climb out of, stop ... "

'Nuff said, I think.

Arfa

>
> Turning fresh meat into smoke and ash can dissipate a great many Watts.
>
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