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Lots of amps in a car battery, but only painful if the voltage is jacked up.

Sufficient amperage at any voltage will kill you. And it doesn't take much. 80 milliamps is enough for cardiac failure.

39 posted on 08/19/2004 7:44:11 PM PDT by aruanan

To: aruanan; All

"Sufficient amperage at any voltage will kill you. And it doesn't take much. 80 milliamps is enough for cardiac failure."

You guys don't know squat about voltage, current and resistance. You don't even have enough background in the subject for it to be explained to you... You sound like my wife.

Have you ever noticed that their is not an electrical shock warning on a 12V car battery? Wonder why that is? Maybe it's because 12V is not a shock hazard... your body resistance is high enough that almost no current flows. Everyone who's ever jump started a car knows that if you touch both terminals (even in the rain) nothing happens.

Just don't short it across a piece of Jewry. You still won't get shocked, but you could get a nasty burn. That's because metal has a low resistance and skin has a high resistance. The current that will flow is inversely proportional to the resistance.

59 posted on 08/19/2004 8:12:22 PM PDT by babygene (Viable after 87 trimesters)

Take a quick refresher course in dialectrics before you become too smug.

75 posted on 08/19/2004 8:49:51 PM PDT by Old Professer (If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)

80 milliamps is enough for cardiac failure.

And that is only .08 of 1 amp. Not much is it?

86 posted on 08/19/2004 9:05:10 PM PDT by Mark17

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