Timeline for Why am I not dead after repeatedly touching a high-voltage source?
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 11:54 | comment | added | Nominal Animal | @htmlcoderexe: Not even I am (nor were, as a child) dumb enough to do it across my heart (i.e. one needle on one side of the body, the other on the other side)! And I was not talking about sticking them into ones flesh, just deep enough to reach the dermis, not even the fatty tissues (so say 1-2mm or so, depending on body part and person), as skin thickness varies. Electrical muscle stimulation is a known working thing, and 9V is definitely enough to disrupt ones heart. Also, to do damage in dermis, if the path is short enough. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 11:22 | comment | added | htmlcoderexe | @Bort I guess it depends on just how deep is "deep into your skin" for Nominal Animal's case specifically. For OP, that was obviously not the case. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 11:19 | comment | added | Bort | @htmlcoderexe - The key to that story is that the probes were in his thumbs, as in his blood. Regardless of the legitimacy of that story: OP, I'm assuming, did not have a direct path to their innards with the zapper. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 7:34 | comment | added | htmlcoderexe | @NominalAnimal There's a story going around about a guy who stuck two probes in each of the thumbs and did in fact die from it. Perhaps you were lucky. Was a 9volt powered multimeter I believe. | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | Nominal Animal | @chthon: There are several layers that make up your skin, and they have different electrical properties. I seem to vaguely recall that the dermis has much smaller resistance, possibly due to all the blood vessels and whatnot. (Which is why touching say a 9V battery with your finger does not hurt, but if you stick needles deep into your skin, and connect the battery to those, it hurts like heck. Don't ask me how I know.) | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | chthon | Isn't your skin surface resistance also much lower due to humidity? This would lead the current just over your skin, and not through your body. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 15:11 | history | edited | Bort | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2018 at 15:05 | history | answered | Bort | CC BY-SA 4.0 |