Posted on 08/19/2004 7:15:52 PM PDT by Malsua
Forgive the vanity please, but I've not seen this addressed.
John Kerry said: "We attached telephone wires to human genitals and cranked up the voltage" or some such.
I'm perplexed. The prominent comm equipment used in vietnam was 12-15 volts.
Isn't skin resistivity higher than that? Certainly you can apply enough voltage with hand crank devices, but if it's only putting out 12-15 volts...wouldn't nothing happen?
I'm not suggesting anyone try this, but 15 volts won't hurt unless you put water on it or something. Could someone clear this up for me?
The new standard for automotive electrical systems will be 42V. It can cause an arcing fault that will burn through metal, and is sufficient voltage, at the amperage required for automotive applications, to kill.
Well then Kerry ADMITS he is guilty of a war crime. Read www.judicialwatch.org the requested DOD to check a few things, including possible Kerry war crimes
I had a similar treatment in OCS (not on the genitals thank God), believe it a 12V DC battery can knock you out. Come to think of it thjey treated us a lot worse the Iraqi POW's.
Go out to your car, grab both terminals on the battery.
Nothing will happen.
(assuming it's not a 48 volt hybrid) Start the car, grab a plug wire, pull the boot off a spark plug. Most cars hit the plugs with at least 25000 volts. You're going to get nailed. Hurts a bit.
Darn. I thought this was a story about attaching wires to John "the Human Genital" Kerry.
But seriously, you can attach a megger to phone wire and give someone a pretty good jolt. (We used to pull gags like getting some nub to hold the ends of the shore phone line and going below and running a megger against it when I was in the Navy).
It is the ring voltage that bites you, 90VAC. Ever touch phone wires while the phone is ringing? Ouch!
The phone operates on 24-48 VDC talk battery. That will not hurt you.
The more modern method uses a re-rigged heart pacemaker and 12 volt battery.
The very small pacemaker rigs are easy to hide and there are plenty of reasons to have batteries.Poachers don't even have to crank the new monkey rigs.
These stories were part of the drunken bragging that would take place every once in a while to build up your "bravado" and display what a badass eveyone was. They always referenced someone doing something that could not be verified and everyone knew it was all BS.
I'm not questioning that equipment was around to deliver painful levels of voltage. I was asking about phones being able to deliver such a jolt. The consensus is still not clear to me. If John effin Kerry meant, he saw people shocked by equipment, well, he's guilty of war crimes. If he meant he saw people shocked by phone equipment is it possible? Either case, he's guilty.
See post 50
Telephones can put out a substantial shock with the "pulses" from a dialer. I have experienced that feeling, and would certainly not want it on my genitals...
Telephones can put out a substantial shock with the "pulses" from a dialer. I have experienced that feeling, and would certainly not want it on my genitals...
I recall repairing one once. Our unit was considered "mobil" but it was really quite fixed. As a result, our phone lines were fixed cables. But we had some field telephone units with the hand crank ringers for possible emergencies if the fixed facilities ever got knocked out.
I, too, recall that the voltage generated by the hand crank was around 90 VAC which would activate the ringer on the remote unit. That voltage is nearly what is available in your home wiring. It can be quite painful.
Great Balls afire??
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