Reply to post: Re: I need an electrician

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

GrumpenKraut
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Re: I need an electrician

> Nobody got electrocuted grabbing the terminals on a 12 V battery

If your skin is well soaked with salt water, 12V can absolutely kill you.

I seem to recall reading that one guy killed himself with a 6 V battery: he wanted to know what the resistance of the body (sans skin!) is, so put a needle into each of his hands. The plan was to measure resistance/current. The current killed him.

Plenty of people got killed by 48 V or thereabouts (electric welder). I have seen some images, gruesome.

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