Current Vs Voltage: How Much Current Can Kill You?
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2019
- Voltage vs current, or sometimes it's current vs voltage; we are constantly trying to understand the differences between these two entities related to electricity. Then, there is sometimes one more entity: resistance. How do these three entities, i.e. current, voltage and resistance play together to cause electric shocks? And more importantly, how much current or voltage can be lethal to you?
It’s very important to understand that it’s not only the current that is fatal to you. Current won’t flow in an electric circuit if there is no potential difference between two points. Also, the current has to flow for a long duration at a specific frequency for it to be lethal to humans. The point of contact of the electric shock also plays a key role in determining if the electric shock is fatal. Similarly, the state of the skin (wet skin or dry skin) plays a crucial role as well.
There’s a lot of confusion between current and voltage when it comes to which is lethal, or which is the more harmful one. You may have also heard the saying that “it’s not the volts that kill you, it’s the amps” - what does the phrase really mean? Find out in this video!
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Suddenly this question comes to my mind and I'm here
When you try to explain urself to ur Fbi agent🤣
At 3 am same
Same
Same
@Dragon you will just feel a shock
I was working with a guy one time and he decided it would be a great idea to go piss by the transformer! He ended up pissing to close to the transformer and his piss seeped under and it may have touched a live wire! And he instantly dropped and unfortunately passed away🥺 this is just a reminder to be safe with electricity! You never know what will happen 👍🏽
I came here after I almost got died from electricity 😔 lights went out and I decided to fix main switch by myself. Open wire touched the iron part and sparks went everywhere, I'm lucky to be alive. Learnt to leave it to professionals 👍
Good thing the switch was well grounded.
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we are the ohms, resistance is futile
You will be assimilated.
I'm here after 6 young adolescents have sadly passed away following a terrible deadly electrocution while their kanwar, a pilgrimage dedicated structure, hit a 22000 high volt cable in Mauritius. More than 10 others are still hospitalized, including 1, who is in critical condition in intensive care. This is no joke but a serious matter. Today, their families and the entire nation are mourning their losses 😢🙏
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literally LOLOLOLOLOL
lmfao
When I was 2 years old, I shoved a dogtag into a standard electrical outlet. I'm unaware of many of the details that followed, but I've been fascinated by electricity ever since. Also this is why you put covers on the electrical outlets when you have very young children in the house!!
You learned 🤷♂️
Modern outlets are protected. We had those in the kids rooms in the 1960s. Basically all outlet have been protected from 1980s or so on in Finland. Even extension cords have protections.,
God, just get to the point so I know what to use to drop in my tub
What a cool video 👍
Good explainer video bro
Well, that was interesting. Now I'm going to sleep, and I need to turn off my laptop. Wish me luck everyone.
It’s been two years. Did you survive?
@@insertmetalusernamehere I did. I see that 5 people have liked my comment. I'm sure they wished me luck. Thank you, kind souls.
such a good video!
Glad you liked it!!
Mistake in the video, he said “if it we’re just the Amps static electricity would be lethal” he meant to say “if it were just the volts static electricity would be lethal” static electricity is often well over 1000 volts but because it has an extremely low ampage and duration it’s merely just an unpleasant shock.
Static might be 1000 volts but those volts are dropping over the arc, not through you, thing is it is the volts that kill you as they are responsible for creating the amps. 1000 volts would probably push about an amp through a person.
Dragon yes because it’s very high voltage. It would feel like a static shock.
Dragon It wouldn’t be harmful but it would hurt slightly.
Dragon You’re welcome.
@Dragon yes
Well done
0:02 I too wake up with a >w
This video checks out. Theory explained well. As a good general rule of thumb, anything above 30V should be treated with caution. I work in an industrial setting where 24VDC is the control voltage level. It is very safe and I rarely think twice if I have to work on it live. Damp skin and barefoot would be a different experience, but still not lethal.
If your hands are not sweaty you will not even feel 24v.
Make video on AC vs DC...
Ive only ever got an electric shock from school gates or jumpers 😂
Lmao
I was taking the plate off a water heater and the plate tbiuched a terminal on the water heater as I took it off and it shocked me but it was a quick zap should I be worried
Summary of the video:
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
100ma - nasty shock
200ma - woo thats dangerous
300ma - bbye unless you have 're lucky af
Current depends on your resistance which is variant to the point of connection of body, and if you're wet or not.
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
its current that kills you not voltage
electricity is dangerous
Wait I'm sorry what kills you not voltage again?
100mA is more than enought to kill you.
Question. If a human body is submersed in water, and say, a 6v electric appliance happens to fall into the water. Will it just give mild shock? Since water is inside the ears, given that between the ears produces higher ohms. And also the duration of the shock.
It will definitely shock you, it likely wont kill you. it would give you around 0.02 (20 milliamps) of current.
you would need to complete a circuit before you got shocked, just dropping something into water is not enough
No such thing. You're confusing V and Amps
You can go to a bath with a 230v toaster behind 10A fuse & be safe. Adding salt to that water will decrease its resistance & probably cause water to boil between live & neutral wire inside the toaster. Putting your fingers inside the toaster will shock you, but the current would not go through heart which makes it safe. It would only hurt your hand & fingers. Most power outlets nowdays have fault current protection that cuts the power when ground leakage is noticed.
@@bc1173 No way would 6 V kill.
A good example of high amps but low voltage is a 12v battery. The voltage isn't high enough (usually) to push the current through you, even though the battery is capable of providing high amperage. Conversely, a high voltage source, without high current (static on door knob) also won't kill you. It's always bugged me when people say its the amps that kills you.
amps do kill you, AMP is current lol i think u just made a mistake in your writing .
@@joej3365 No, I did not. Amps "can" kill you, but not without higher voltages. 400 amps isn't going to do anything to you, if it's 1 volt. If it's 100 volts, that's a different story. Tell me why you can touch the poles on a 100+ amp car battery but wouldn't dare stick your finger in a 15 amp house hold outlet? What's difference? The volts. Education is important when dealing with deadly things.
Yes amps WILL kill you, but not without sufficient voltage and vice versa. Static electricity is super high voltage, but has no amperage. You have to start thinking of the two as a combined unit, when talking about deadly shocks.
actually that sounded dumb it wouldn’t work like that my blood would act like a short to the stent
@@joej3365 I see. 🤦♂️
@@larryroyovitz7829 hey it’s my second semester of community college at least i know that much
nice explanation dear
Static discharges have low charge and energy but high current. The resistance of the skin doesn't drop to 1 kΩ being wet. They are dropping because of the voltage.
@@barry1122 The internal resistance lays around 500 Ω. So at 20 000 V there will be a peak current value of 40 A. That's the way it is.
Finally someone who knows what he is talking about.There is so much nonsense in this issue.
electroboom would disagree with you
i enjoy the sound and animation when they get electrocuted.
Me holding my phone charger while plugged into the wall up to my face thus putting electricity in myself while watching this video
Awesome
me getting shooked with 15-20k volts and i felt it true my body and it was PAINFULL 😭
Nice to review an old high school concept
I littera;y went on my phone to check my notification, felt a sting right where the charger input is, then rested my arm down and then got shocked again my my laptop SMHHHHHHHH
U still alive?
Talk about a Current Affair.
I still never got my answer I want to know how high a voltage and amperage I can take shit until it kills me. I want to break world speed record for fastest RC car and I don't know if it's going to that me to death considering I'm going to take the voltage and average as high as I possibly can get it lol
Yep me too, I was taken here from their website and it says the same shit, "Humans have died at as low as 42 volts" and "Time is also a factor. A current of 0.1 ampere for a mere 2 seconds can be fatal"
Not saying those cases aren't true, just want to know the average volts of the voltage caused deaths.
@@MangaGamified according to IEC it's 50V or 30mA
2:07 Absolutely bizarre statement. 10k is much more dangerous than 100V, the offhand perception someone would get is 100% correct. 100V can still kill, but 10k will kill much faster and much more violently.
It depends on the power source & its ability to provide watts. Tazer might have 7000 volts, but not enought energy to kill you. 230v power outlet behind 10A fuse would.
@@dudefromnorth9410 Tasers kill about 50 people annually in the US. This is in the same ballpark as electric shocks. I cold not find any data on fatality rates though.
@@okaro6595 I don't think that tasers kill 50 people a year. There are deaths occuring during taser use which are rarely relatable to the actual electrical taser use itself.
Can anyone explain to me if you get shock from 240 but don’t get a burn and just slight tingle is it something to worry about ?
Same exact thing with me
How did you get shocked and how long
Not dangerous if the current did not go trough heart, if it did it has a change of causing heart chamber flutter which can cause death. This can occur even 24h after the shock. If power outlet had GFCI that cut the power automaticly decreases the chance of heart issues. I would not be too worried, have got shocked above 10 times & im still here. They mostly cause just burns, but there is always a slight chance of death. If you are worried you can go to hospital & get a heart film that will show if something in your heart rythm is not correct.
Yesterday i got a electric shock (240 volt)during switching off the fan with barefoot and plastic scale in my left hand
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When I Shake hand with other person or other things, so I feel electrical short. Same time I feel high electrical short. same time I use Gloves:
Can you tell me what happened with me. Please tel me about problem
Make a video related to the light
I'm a soon to be an electrical engineer. But I didn't know the answer to this
I just had a 240 volt shock, so to check what it can do it me in future l'm here...
How are you?
nice video! doesn't current flow from negative to positive though?
day of a millennial there is two theory’s one is - to + and the other is + to - this one is used in car or making any type of circuit and make a more sense to me but idk what - to + would be used for
It’s called the conventional theory I believe
Electrons flow from negative to positive to create current, yes. However, convential current goes from positive to negative which is what this video used.
Electrons flow from an area of high concentration to lower concentration, releasing potential energy. However, in electrical engineering, we define positive current flow as being in the opposite direction to electron drift (which is a negative charge) by convention.
Blame Benjamin Franklin.
Back in the days, scientists and engineers believed current flow from +ve to -ve. So all teachings were done that way, books were written that way and formulas were depicted that way. But later on, it was discovered that electrons flow from -ve to +ve. But it was too late and would be too hectic to change every book and teachings around the globe. So, the previous flow is called conventional flow (from +ve to -ve) and is still used in colleges and universities as a mode of teaching... whereas the later flow is called electron flow (-ve to +ve) which engineers know is the correct flow, but will usually use conventional flow anyway, because all symbols of electronic devices like diodes are written according to conventional flow way before electron flow was discovered.
If you have a battery that is 1.2 Volt and 10 ampere and you put a wire between the + and - side of the battery and the wire is not isolated, will it make an electric shock or not if you touch the wire?
No. 1.2 V isn't enough.
It will cause short circuit to battery & heat it a lot. It might become so hot you cant touch it anymore, but there is no way of getting shocked
A 17 year old kid in my city was in a hookah bar when he got a call & to attend it he went to the terrace of the building , while he held the phone with one hand he put his other hand on an eletricity pole for support but he got a really bad shock , even his friend who tried to rescue him got his own hand burnt & the initial boy died due to the heavy current.
the electric pole was definitely defective there is no way that cell phone could have had to do with the shock if then always live or if the deck was wet and live then that could have done it. I noticed that sometimes they take the 10000 volt lines and put them underground so The poles are use d to transition has 10000 volt lines going down the side of it the insulation is supposed to be good enough but it can degrade over time and absorb moisture so this could have been what happened also.
I’m here because work has asked me to put a sticker on the meter box and I’m scared to go near the electrical’s let alone the meter 😅
I got shocked by a outlet for 1 second lol
Are u still alive? Cuz I got shocked too and I’m scared kinda
Sir some persons say that you can touch live wire(which are tighted through pillers in village almost 220V) if you are not in contact with earth because voltage will flow but current will not. But sir our body voltage is almost 13V and wire220V then current should be flow ones but I'm not contact with earth so it will stop in just second after my body voltage becomes 220V i.e. equal to wire. So how dangerous this tiny current?
Who is wrong I'm or that person??
It depends, everytime when i have touched 230v i have got shocked. Sometimes im not grounded to anything & i still feel it, when i am grounded it sure hurts more. I think you can touch it in full rubber suit without getting shocked, but that ends the second you get grounded to something.
AC is more dangerous because it can overcome the capacitance of the body. The higher the frequency of AC then the more dangerous it becomes. Of course we need voltage to overcome resistance and amperage to deliver power. BTW the main AC power bus on aircraft is 400Hz at 115V, this is very dangerous and can give excruciating shocks.
A safe amount of AC voltage above 10khz doesn't hurt that much. You could see electroboom's video on AC pain frequency. :D
@@agl0d16 Yes, as frequencies move beyond the AF spectrum the sensation of electrocution at safe voltages would be more like DC. At RF the skin effect will also come into play. I think the most dangerous frequency for the nervous system is somewhere around 700Hz ?
@@OliverWoodphotography yes
Killua how
If there was a supply capable of raising the voltage up to 72,000 Volt's while also containing the capacity for current to reach 46 milliamps alternating the current at the frequency of 54.8 HZ sine wave, is it lethal to touch it, since it takes 100 to 200 milliamps to kill?
That's called a Van Der Graaf generator and it's not likely to kill you, even tho the shock will be painful
voltage and frequency is directly proportional to how dangerous is it. 54.8hz is a decent amount and 72,000 volts is a lot. This will produce more than enough current to kill you.
@@bc1173 capacity to reach 46 milliamps maximum.
46ma is not considered safe but it depends on where the current flowed in your body and for how long.
Yes. There is a chance it might kill you as it is above 30 mA
Sir i have purchased a 3amp 12volt adapter from local market and when i touch the output it with my finger i have shock Does it happen or its a bad one
yep that means it’s poor quality get rid of it
Bro I touch 12V 37.5 A or 5V 90A and I feel nothing
@@Wolfily are u still alive is nt you 😐
@@villagerse ✨️Skin Resistece✨️
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Many a time I have been shocked when plugging in a cord to an outlet because I accidentally touch the prongs as they begin to slide in. Man that will wake you up
You are not a candidate for electroshock therapy
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I'm going to build my first arc lighter. And I just wanted to know if it kill me. But seems it's not.
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Yeah a arc welder can't give enough shock to harm you.
@@saratmondal2000 well, it centairly kicks, and burns, but I'm still alive.
It’s the amps that kill but you need a high voltage to overcome your skin’s resistance. So low voltage high amperage can burn you but it won’t shock you.
Low voltage with high amperage can indeed cause burns without delivering a lethal shock.
At low voltages almost no current can flow through you so the only way to get burned is by touching some hot metal or arc that the high current created
It will be a bit dangerous to say that almost no current can flow through your body at low voltages. Not quite. While it's true that at low voltages, the risk of electric shock is lower, but even at low voltages, if there's a sufficient path for electricity to flow through your body, it can still result in harm. The human body has a certain resistance, and even a small amount of current passing through it can cause muscle contractions, pain, and potentially serious injury. Also, it's not just high currents that can cause burns. Even relatively low currents passing through the body can generate enough heat to cause burns, particularly at points of contact.
@@Scienceabc That’s what I meant to say but I oversimplified it.
your body has a certain resistance. How can you have a high amperage without a high voltage for a given resistance? It does not make sense. You need a high voltage to deliver that high current to you.
My question is still unanswered. As an electrician apprentice am I putting my life at risk working live? Am I only at risk if something is plugged in somewhere further down the circuit that also draws a lot of amps? That’s the only explanation that might be helpful.
So let me just ask if a standard 15amp circuit in a house is les dangerous then a 50 amp circuit used for a range/oven?
You might say yes obviously but what is actually the difference? it’s the same power, right? The same as the infused power between the transformer and your house, so what is the amperage of unfused power?
The only way that I’ve been told it’s dangerous is if you can’t let go, and that kind of power is talked about in volts because it’s when you get up to the 480v or maybe just 240v that cause your muscles to lock up.
Maybe more dangerous if you have the Leeds on either side of your head but how do you even get yourself into that situation?
Most often is between your fingers on the same hand or between your hands.
Idk
As an electrician apprentice am I putting my life at risk working live? Yes, if you're working on a live circuit, you're putting yourself in danger.
Am I only at risk if something is plugged in somewhere further down the circuit that also draws a lot of amps? No, if you touch both contacts on that switch or outlet, then you're technically plugged in.
So let me just ask if a standard 15amp circuit in a house is les dangerous then a 50 amp circuit used for a range/oven? Yes, it is less dangerous, but still very dangerous.
To sum this up, shut off the breaker on the circuit that you're working on.
If there is a voltage potential between two points, there is always a risk of electric shock.
It is best to be safe and not work on live wires, this is why linemen shut off power when doing work on high voltage lines, the voltage (pressure) is easily enough to jump from your hand, through your body and through something say like a bucket lift.
I've been shocked once by accident because I was trying to plug in my phone charger and couldn't find the outlet. I foolishly had my fingers on the prongs to try and guide it into the outlet, and as soon as the prongs met the outlet the voltage traveled through my fingers and gave a big shock. Thankfully because it only traveled through my fingers, I could pull away. If voltage is traveling through your hand to your foot, you may not be able to pull away. It's best not to risk it.
I just got shocked Right now and I'm scared that's why I'm watching this 😂😂😂
What about the electric protection systems that open mains when Leakage current is more than 30mA ?
meaning, taht for me, the current limitation should be told as being 30mA.
30mA safety trips are chosen due to anecdotal evidence of people who have been shocked and the accident investigated.
30 mA is the C1 threshold for VF
We have a small battery looking thing on our Bulb and its 250 volts
Had to know what happens when you inhale electricity,,,have just left my room after realising that my heater socket is behaving funny... something about to explored....
Installing an electric fence for my pigs today... watched this video before
Gotta love that "Meh..." gesture at 1:55
Is it really only the amount of electrons flowing through your body that can harm you? Volt expresses how much force each coulomb pack upon collision, so that would also def intuitively seem to matter. How much it hurts getting punched by in the face by the same fist matter according to how fast the fist is thrown ':D
Voltage is the real determinant of the amount of current that flows. If the voltage is low the current can be somewhat limited, meanwhile, if it's high, the current is very lethal and somewhat not limited; and yes, a hard punch hurts
@@ibkfn9442 yeh I like to think it's the volts that kill you, because in the end they are soley responsible for how many amps go through a person.
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Poor Killua
Yesterday i got a electric shock (240 volt)during switching off the fan with barefoot and plastic scale in my left hand
It's the amps that get ya 😄
Yes, but they depend on voltage which means that volatge is the dangerous one
@dudefromnorth9410 They ! You mean Roy and Mary?
Im boutta be killua here
i didnt get in vidio about dry skin ohm is 500 000 but in part were its from hand to foot its just 500
I touched a water bucket with a device in it that can put out 2 KW, in order heat the water. The fing was broken and it shocked me real good. I forgot what was actually doing, when I checked on the water temperature. Funny eh?
PS: Could I have died from the shock?
Water has high resistance & since you was not between live & neutral wire the current that went through you was probably pretty small. If you felt the shock from your hand to legs, thats a big one. If you only felt it in your arm nothing to worry about. 30mA can be fatal if it goes through heart but in your case i think it did not since there was water between you hand & the device creating resistance. Electrons wants to travel from neutral to live wire inside the device, they dont randomly spread around in the water, if you was well grounded some of them probably went through you to the floor.
I'm in Europe (230V) and I've recently stepped with a naked toe in a multi socket that was laying on the ground, giving me what I think is described here as the 'unpleasant shock'. I've found this video very helpful but I'm still wondering if in the USA (110V), the shock would have been different? How are the Amps related to this?
the standard lighting circuit or circuit for bedrooms outlets in the US is 15 amps. 20 amps for bathrooms and kitchens. In europe, the circuit breakers or fuses are set for much lower amperage. So, more "push", less current flow. Here, its more current less "push/pressure". So, the shock is similar
@@coppulor6500 Actually the shock would be less strong and less dangerous with 110V because even though the max capacity for amps in the US is greater, the resistance of the persons body would limit how many amps are drawn, and more amps can be drawn at 230V or the same resistance per ohm's law like the video explained.
What counyry
@@coppulor6500 from latvia in europe, for apartments we have 16 A circuit with 220 v
😂😂15amps, 60hz. AC. AC is different. Itll throw you off as DC will bind you
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I was shocked by a welding machine when I was 10 I’m 18 now will I be okay?
Hurt you, or kill you? Because theirs a big difference.
how much 16340 cells are needed for the job?
I don't really know what to say here, I am a computer scientist and I also work with electronics at home (just for fun) and I have a power supply that I mess with.
I touch 12V 37.5 A or 5V 90A and I feel nothing.
I asked ChatGPT about this and it says it is "lethal".
I think this is BS.
Am I wrong here?
I think you need a combo of Volts Amps and you skin resistence. (My skin is about 200K Ohm)
ChatGPT still says it is lethal.
I believe in electroBOOM, as he says, it is the Volts that kill, not the current.
Please reply to this comment, because I am confused.
It is the current that flows through you that kills. The amount of current flowing through you is determined by the voltage across your body and your resistance (ohms law). With such low voltage almost no current can flow through you. With moisture your resistance drops so I wouldn't touch anything more than 24V with wet hands.
Its not surprising that ChatGPT got it wrong because even most people have difficulty understanding that there is a difference between power supply current capability and the actual current flowing through you.
@@laserdiode You probably know Styropyro, right?
He said he would keep it under 50V for safe exerpiments.
Thank you sir!
High voltage might kill you easly. As voltage is nothing more than a force upheld by amount of energy, to keep a distance between potentials. The bigger potential you want to have, ergo higher voltage, you must put more work into it, and work force is coming from energy directed from calories extracted from various sources of fuels. Such as burning black coal. The current can only appear in two conditions: 1. there must be source of voltage 2. the circut is closed. Disclaimer: this is very narrow explenation of topic.
I came here cause I got shock by water heater 😂
So you’re telling me 0.2 amps can do physical damage? I don’t understand
I work on cars and I deal with 10 15 25 amp fuses but a car battery is 12v about 600-1000amps and that can’t kill u. So I don’t understand lol
@@youhan911 If the potential difference i.e. 12V is low then the electricity will only flow through your skin and to the ground at the most. As 12V isnt enough to cause your dielectric skin to break and conduct electricity 'through it', only a minor spark could be created you will receive a sharp pinch due to heat on that skin area, nothing fatal.
Shoeb Md so if it was a 24v battery with 600 amps that would hurt a little more?
@@youhan911 1) 24V-600A means that the battery will have 24V at the terminals and the connected load cannot draw more than 600Amps at the set 24V. Else the battery will discharge faster / damage or the device connected wont operate as expected. Also important to know is 24V-600Amps for how many hours?
2) Current gets drawn by the load depending upon its consumption needs.....Therefore when a human body touches 24V it will feel nothing/little only but a few milliamps due to conductivity of skin. But if you connect a DC fan (for e.g.) which draws say 24V drawing 1A, it means that the DC Fan will SUCK 1amp of electricity, if you reduce the voltage to 12V, the battery will burn out. If you raise the voltage to 48V the (keeping everything same) It will draw more and our fan will Burn out.
Now if you have felt a tickle at 12V then naturally you will feel more than a tickle at 24V. Thus, Humans dont run on elctricity, i.e. we dont draw electric current when connected ,but if higher voltage is applied across our skin the this breaks the dielectric -ness of skin and conduct electricity, which may result in death.
Shoeb Md that makes sense! Thank you
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Explained everything apart from what the title. I mean can someone if they are introduced to 12 V and 5000 amp DC current. Don't beat around the bush. Everyone knows how flow of electricity happens and the leathality part
While opening fan from ceilings I got current and I came here
What I understand is that above 20 mA is fatal.
That is true but it is also time dependant and depends also on current path and type (AC or DC). 20 mA of AC are as deadly as 60 mA of smooth DC with a duration > 2 s and a left hand to both feet current path.
That means even a USB can hurt me?
Incorrect amps depends on voltage.
1:07 Electricity flows from negative to positive😭😭
It's correct. Electron current flow is from negative to positive. Conventional current flow is from positive to negative. When illustrating with an animation, you should use electron flow because that is the actual physical reality, but when calculating, most books and industry uses conventional current flow.
@@marmosetman Well, I guess it doesn't matter in most cases which way it flows unless you have transistors or diodes.
I’ve been hit by a 440V industrial machine it didn’t burn me but my arm and chest felt fuzzy/weird for hours, 220V is nothing, 110 even more so I use my hands as an electrical tester for 110 up to 40 amps
thats so terrifying to hear
What came first? The chicken or the egg?
Your mom
I almost touched a 52.6 volt / 100 amp battery.
I'm just curious if I almost killed myself. You know, for novelty reasons.
It would hurt a bit but if your skin is dry and without cuts it likey wouldn't kill you.
Wait? Are you said 0.2 Amp is dangerous?
I experienced .1 amp @ 240v, and I couldn’t move, couldn’t talk or yell, and the sound of being electrically shocked in my head was so loud, I passed out while I was electrocuted because I can’t remember past a certain point. What saved my life was the electrical panel caught fire, severing the connection. The wire I was stuck on, it was broken and I was asked how I broke the wire while I was being electrocuted. So when the power source was severed by the fire, I dropped because I was unconscious, my body weight breaking the wire.
@@SparkyOne549 how long did you stay in the hospital? What did you feel?
TheLaptopGamer What did I feel as I was being electrocuted, or after? I was about 9yo, I wasn’t taken to the hospital but I should have been. No one saw what happened is why...no one knew the severity of the situation. Apparently I didn’t have any color at all, and looked deathly is what I was told, but that wasn’t enough to take me to the hospital I guess. I was also told I shouldn’t have survived.
@@SparkyOne549 that is nuts but completely believable given those numbers. I hope you haven't had many long-term effects. Stay well.
Brace yourselves for truth Yep, true story and no lasting affects luckily. I was also only about 9yo when it happened.
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I touched 240 volts.
I watching this even if I know this bcs I'm electrician