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Darwin award goes to Texas girl fried in bathtub by her cell phone
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A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.
Madison Coe was electrocuted after she either grabbed her phone that was plugged in or plugged in her phone, her grandmother Donna O'Guinn told KCBD-TV. The teen was visiting her father in New Mexico when the incident occurred.
"There was a burn mark on her hand, the hand that would have grabbed the phone. And that was just very obvious that that's what had happened," O'Guinn told the news station.
https://www.usatoday.co
A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.
Madison Coe was electrocuted after she either grabbed her phone that was plugged in or plugged in her phone, her grandmother Donna O'Guinn told KCBD-TV. The teen was visiting her father in New Mexico when the incident occurred.
"There was a burn mark on her hand, the hand that would have grabbed the phone. And that was just very obvious that that's what had happened," O'Guinn told the news station.
https://www.usatoday.co
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If I is important, then with a given V, we need to know R.
If R ~ 1000 ohms and V=5 then I ~ 0.005 A = 5mA
Or simply put a phone charger's electrical output isn't going to kill you
5V can't possibly cause any burn marks on human skin. So it has to be the AC side.
Also, if you can lick a 9V battery and feel it, you should be able to feel 5mA.
Here's a good summary of what current level will kill you
that table is garbage. TASERs put out a higher amperage. it is about how the current travels in addition to the amount.
that table is garbage. TASERs put out a higher amperage. it is about how the current travels in addition to the amount.
Taser: high VOLTAGE, very low amps (milliamps) http://www.slate.com/articles/new..._work.htm
One of the strongest stun gun has 4.5mA - http://www.tbotech.com/highest-am...un-gun.htm
Stun guns have 9V batteries, and some personal defense tasers use 9V/AA also. The police ones have other batteries. How do you get HIGH amps from a 9V battery when you step it up to 50,000V?
Short answer: you don't. It's against the laws of physics.
5V can't possibly cause any burn marks on human skin. So it has to be the AC side.
fark that shit.
If I is important, then with a given V, we need to know R.
If R ~ 1000 ohms and V=5 then I ~ 0.005 A = 5mA
Or simply put a phone charger's electrical output isn't going to kill you
Which is why, don't touch 120V with wet hands. Dry hands have a much higher resistance, so it wont kill you, but will sting (ask me how I know? lol)
Which is why, don't touch 120V with wet hands. Dry hands have a much higher resistance, so it wont kill you, but will sting (ask me how I know? lol)
We were talking about how poorly that article was written. Which has been rehashed onto other media outlets btw.
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Which is why, don't touch 120V with wet hands. Dry hands have a much higher resistance, so it wont kill you, but will sting (ask me how I know? lol)
p.s. ask me how i know
p.s. ask me how i know
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p.s. ask me how i know
I assumed that the damn thing was discharged, nope. That capacitor shocked me and kept me holding it for what felt like eternity (probably half a second at most).
So yes, I know how you know
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Taser: high VOLTAGE, very low amps (milliamps) http://www.slate.com/articles/new..._work.htm
One of the strongest stun gun has 4.5mA - http://www.tbotech.com/highest-am...un-gun.htm
Stun guns have 9V batteries, and some personal defense tasers use 9V/AA also. The police ones have other batteries. How do you get HIGH amps from a 9V battery when you step it up to 50,000V?
Short answer: you don't. It's against the laws of physics.
batteries have little to do with anything it is all about circuitry. the circuits step-up the voltage and store it in capacitors for quick discharge. you could build a stun gun out of watch batteries if you wanted and you probably wouldn't need that many. what do you think they put in the slugs TASER makes that can be fired from a shotgun?
here is the TASER patent.
http://archive.is/20140819211449/...nph-Parser