Re: TC discharge... safe or not

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>


>When people refer to the skin effect they are refering to the tendancy of 
>high voltage to travel along the outer surface of a wire or channel 
>instead of the interior of the wire. Ok Im not a scientist and I have 
>actually only recently learned about all of this, but I am truely amazed 
>at how many "smart people" take this literally in a human biology sense. 
>The skin of your body is NOT being refered to.

         Your body is a conductor.
         RF will travel preferentially on the outside.
         Since it is a POOR conductor, some will
         penetrate.  Caution is in order.

         (in more detail:
         The depth of penetration depends on resistivity,
         conductor diameter and frequency....)

         This is complicated by the fact that the surface
         of (human) skin is a relatively poor conductor
         so the current works its way inside.

         best
         dwp

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