[blackbart.223]

"The true cause of death from electrocution is frying of the brain matter; all else is coincidental; D.C. at sufficient rectified voltage, >2500 volts will break the skin resistance and serum sodium levels take over for conductance."

Let me try this one again. High voltage alone won't kill. It is the amount of current delivered that will do the trick. Take a 480vac 3 phase circuit and you only come in contact with one leg. If that circuit is attached to a twenty amp circuit breaker you are in deep shit.

[Old Professer]

That would be roughly 270 volts and any effect on you would depend on the path the current took; if you touched the open lead with your forefinger and your thumb on the same hand was near a ground you would have very bad burns on that hand; what does your 20 amp circuit breaker have to do with primary skin resistance?

[Old Professer]

BTW, I used to work with voltages up to 4,800 VAC, (with one hand behind my back).