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> -=> Nicholas J Feliccia spoke of "Shocking stories" <=-

> Ok. I want to know from the net people. What is the largest voltage
> shock you have ever received (and survived.) I am not talking about

This is probably not a totally sensible question.  The criterion is
too vauge.  Personally I have happily sunk current from a Tesla
Coil generating many hundreds of thousands of volts, but we all know
that that is cheating since the current is miniscule and the skin effect
stops any current flowing anywhere it might do any harm.

A friend of mine was demonstrating a Tesla Coil many years ago
for a TV science show, the coil was driven by a serious induction
coil, one capable of generating a six inch spark at much more
dangerous (that is low) frequencies.  He was wearing a microphone
around his neck and accidentally brushed the wrong part of the
setup, the arc hit his hand, and then used the mic cable as the
rest of its run.  Apparently it hurt quite a bit.  
The current is still too low to be lethal.

What now?  You might define the contest to be one of those that have
survived the most lethal contact with electricity, but one could argue
that since they survived, it couldn't have been a lethal contact :-)

Anyone that has survived a lightning stike must win with no
possible argument.  Lightning is a pretty strange beast however.
People have survived unscathed by the bolt, unscathed that is
except for the burns on one wrist and their thighs.  That is where
their watch and the coins in their pockets melted.

Mind you Marc Evans and his contact with a 44kV line must rate
pretty well.  Not many live to tell of such deeds.



						Francis Vaughan