Re: You use a utility transformer?!

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• Subject: Re: You use a utility transformer?!
• From: "Mad Coiler" <tesla_coiler-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:20:25 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Ed, all,

I have been told that 10mA is enough to cause severe pain and also cause 
you to grab onto the peice and not let go, and 100mA is considered 
leathal, so there is a 'chance' that you could walk away from a NST 
after touching it(but please dont try to prove this), but you are outta 
luck if you touch (or get to close to) a distribution transformer (or 
any transformer like this that isnt current limited?), yup, toast. Now 
capactors, they dont just have the ability to potentialy kill you, they 
can actually explode things that touch their terminals...I think Bill 
the Arcstarter did something like simulating the effect of getting 
shocked with a hotdog. I think it made a big mess? I dont meen to scare 
anyone here, I am sure most of us all know this...and if you dont then 
you better do some research on this before you fire up anything that 
using voltages ratings with four digits or more.

Tristan Stewart 

>It's not obvious to me that a distribution transformer would
>necessarily be more lethal than a neon sign transformer with equivalent
>voltage output.  Any current over a few mils, (passing through the
>chest) should be lethal in the long run .  I know there's a lot of data
>on morbidity vs time of exposure, but I think getting across a 15 kV 60
>ma NST (say between the hands) would have the same results as getting
>across a 15 kV, 100 kVA transformer.
>
>Ed


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