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In article <1496@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> hermann@cs-sun-fsd.UUCP (Michael Hermann) writes:
>In article <89Jun8.160452edt.10877@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek) writes:
>>
>>    I noticed long ago that if you (accidentally) touch a live
>>conductor, there is an odd sensation reminicent of a rough surface.
>> (the feeling is kind
>>of line a high-freq. vibration -- 60Hz?).
>
>	I'm assuming that besides doing this by accident, you were very well
>insulated and so your body did not provide a ground fault to the conductor
>(ie. no current went a significant distance through you).

My understanding of the whole business is that you are feeling the current
which is (dis)charging your body capacitance.  Pump a few electrons in and
you get a current.  You don't need a current "through" your body.  There's a 
lot of mass there in which to store excess electrons.  A corollary to this is
that you don't need to be grounded to get zapped by a _very_ high voltage
(>100 kV?).

Corrections welcome; flames (sparks?) to /dev/null.
-- 
		David Chapman

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