[Old Professer]

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.

[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."

I think we are splitting hairs here. Cardiac arrest or frying the brain end in the same result. A.C. ,at much lower voltages than D.C., can cause cardiac arrest due to the frequency that we generate A.C.

[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.