Timeline for Why do you get shocked touching a live wire?
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | Brian | @jbarlow But that implies that standing on a plastic stool with rubber soled shoes is a much lower impedance than my body's internal resistance - that doesn't seem correct. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:20 | comment | added | jbarlow | @Brian you were grounded. Your body was at roughly the same electrical potential as earth, with a high impedance connection to it. Even if you were "floating" with different electrical potential, you would probably experience a shock anyway. Linesmen can work on live wires if lowered from a helicopter or raised on a non-conducting platform but they usually experience an arc while approaching, until they bond to the live wire and match its electrical potential. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 3:03 | comment | added | soosai steven | How about the displacement current which flows only momentarily? | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 2:46 | comment | added | Brian | I missing what path you are suggesting the current is flowing through my body (at 1.5kohms to 100 kohms) being that I was not grounded... | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 1:47 | history | answered | jbarlow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |