Re: Capacitance of the human body..

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Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de> 

Hello Dr. R, All.

Very interesting experiment Dr. Resonance, one I definitely will try when I
have
access to a signal generator for the next time.
The other thing is, what might this question be related to?! I have to
admit, after viewing the "moody clip" that was posted on the list some weeks
ago I found myself recontructing the shape of my body with cylinders and
spheres and adding up the capacitances, which brought me to something like
160pF.
However, this was after some beer and with recurring sobriety the desire to
use myself as a topload luckily vanished. But the question really rang my
alarm bells, so if you are calculating for that purpose, I fear there is a
lot more to keep in mind than the tuning of the coil.
Though I wondered if it could be safer ( not safe ) to build a small
platform that is powered by very low power coil, at least you could light
some neon bulbs in your hand.....

Just a thought.

best regards

Christoph Bohr



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Subject: Re: Capacitance of the human body..


 > Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > For the FAA average weight human male, 170 lbs, its 165 pF.  Roughly .97
 > pF/lb with a human.  Slightly different value for aliens.
 >
 > You can also do an interesting experiment with a TC, to calculate or
measure
 > the capacitance exactly.
 >
 > Feed your coil with a sig generator, 2 turns around the very lowest part
of
 > the sec, and observe the res freq with an o-scope.  Record this freq.
Next,
 > stand your victim (I mean partner) on a plastic or glass insulated stand
 > elevated at least 48 inches from the floor, have them touch the sec
toroid,
 > and record this freq.
 >
 > Subtract the two frequencies.  Knowing the inductance of your sec coil,
 > substituting this value into the freq equation you can solve for C --- the
 > value of capacitance of your test object/subject.
 >
 > This is also a great way to measure the cap of balls, spheres, toroids,
etc
 > of unknown capacitance.
 >
 > Dr. Resonance
 >
 >  >
 >  > Does anyone know what the average capacitance of the human body it? I'm
 >  > getting 200pf from different web pages on the net.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >
 >