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Article #20911Re: Electrocution -- Is this possible?
From: Howard F. Steel
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 12:51
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 12:51
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In article <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU> ramsey@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ramsey W. Haddad) writes: >"Convicted Murdered Electrocutes Himself on Prison Toilet" > >I find this very surprising. Do television earphones really put out >enough amps to do this? Amps aren't needed. A fault introducing line voltage to one side of the headset can do you in with milli-amps. If you get it under your skin (or gums) Micro-amps can do it. The safe level of leakage current from modern equipment is considered to be only 3.5 milli-amps. -- Howard.Steel@Waterloo.NCR.COM :-( I Think, Therefore I AM, aka: Howard "The Duck" Steel :-) I think
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwat!swdev!tp2!howard From: howard@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Howard F. Steel) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electrocution -- Is this possible? Message-ID: <326@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> Date: 10 Mar 89 12:51:26 GMT References: <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: howard@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Howard F. Steel) Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 15