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Old 05-17-2006, 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Walrus
True, but what about conditions that lower the skin's resistivity, ie sweat, rain, wet clothes, engine fluids and puddles, etc. Don't think for a minute that you cannot get seriously hurt from 12 volt battery voltage. Remember, that storage battery is capable of delivering several hundred to over a thousand amps when shorted... It takes about 70 milliampres to stop the human heart, IIRC.
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I'm sorry but you don't understand the laws of electricity I tried to explain Ohms law but you didn't read it well, or comprehend that even with wet hands the resistance of the human skin can't conduct amperes of current at 12 Volts.
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. CAPICHE?
Dont mislead people!
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