Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: Don\'t try this at home kids
I thought that those electrocution game things were done with vibrations
rather than actually electricity
>From: "Lonewolf909" <coolteen7_98@...>
>Reply-To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com
>To: <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: Don't try this at home kids
>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:16:54 +0100
>
>I think that's the reason they won't let mroe than two people on an
>electrocuting game at an arcade - the ammount of amps building up would
>kill them...
>
>And touching the national grid is not as dangerous as touching a main
>powerline...please don't test it... THE AMPS KILL YOU! MY SCIENCE TEACHER
>SAYS SO AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO WRITE ON MY FINAL EXAM
>
>On a lighter note, happy easter for when it comes...and did you all know
>that this group's written over 1500 messages?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: e.kolis@... <e.kolis@...>
> To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: 10 April 2001 17:07
> Subject: Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: Don't try this at home kids
>
>
> >It is the Amps that kill you.
>
> >Power(Watts) = Voltage x Current(Amps)
>
> >The power must remain the same, no matter what you do to it.
> >Using a transformer you can step up the voltage, but to equalise the
> >equation, the current is made very low. So, if you step down the
> >voltage, the current is raised. A high current will kill you. (Or at
> >least give you an unimaginable shock.) If you've ever put your finger
> >in a light socket, multiply it by ten and you'll know what it feels
> >like.
>
> So that would mean you could survive touching a high voltage power
> line... and they say those things are MORE dangerous! Wonder why it's
>the
> amps though, an amp is something like a zillion electron-charges per
> second, so all that would mean is how many electrons there are trying to
> get through you, not how badly they want to go (volts)... I figured it
> would be a combination of both and thus the power, but I'd rather not do
> any experiments to find out :-)
>
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