RE: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN PATH???

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>


Just how on earth is someone going to get shocked with a single
conductor???
Where is the return path? There is none.  It wouldn't work. You could
say ground would be the return path,
but with so much resistance (shoes, body tissue, earth itself), its just
not a low enough impedance to provide
adequate current flow.
Tasers carry two conductors so that current can flow - remember voltage
doesn't create pain, its the associated current that does.

Dan



Hi,

Most Tasers carry two wires so the one who holds it is pretty
safe.  If this is just a single conductor along say a stream of
water, Then the shooter would have to have maybe high heels on with a
dragging ground wire.  Then it "might" work...  Of course, like
Tesla's very similar death ray, hope the target is unarmed and
standing still.  Against a mad "terrorist" with an AK-47 it might not
do so well...

What is really funny is this "patent-pending technology" has so much
prior art...  I am sure their patent attorney will make some money
out of it all...

"What does it do to the hand that holds it?" - Imagine if you miss
and hit a power line...  Might not be good to using in a lightning
storm either...

Cheers,

         Terry


At 08:59 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
>"It is a solid state TC hand-held rifle that delivers a solid 10 ft
>long spark.
>
>Pete's out of Anderson, IN.
>
>Dr. Resonance"
>
>         What does it do to the hand that holds it?
>
>Ed