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Darwin award goes to Texas girl fried in bathtub by her cell phone
July 12, 2017 at
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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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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 [archive.is]
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I'll give you extra credit if you can explain the difference between stepping up AC vs. DC "circuitry".
Your link doesn't work. But assuming you quoted it accurately, and I'm sure you did, you do realize they give a range. Do you know why there's a range? If the taser penetrates the skin, that's a whole different set of resistances and currents it needs to send as compared to if it hits your padded jacket, for example. The taser still needs to work, and not kill you.
The topic at hand was how many amps will kill you from direct contact (tongue, skin, etc.).
How about this table? https://www.physics.ohi
ETA a few quotes from that page for the lazy:
Above 200 milliamps, the muscular contractions are so severe that the heart is forcibly clamped during the shock. This clamping protects the heart from going into ventricular fibrillation, and the victim's chances for survival are good.
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
http://research.physic
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http://research.physics.berkeley....Safety.ppt [berkeley.edu]
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I'll give you extra credit if you can explain the difference between stepping up AC vs. DC "circuitry".
Your link doesn't work. But assuming you quoted it accurately, and I'm sure you did, you do realize they give a range. Do you know why there's a range? If the taser penetrates the skin, that's a whole different set of resistances and currents it needs to send as compared to if it hits your padded jacket, for example. The taser still needs to work, and not kill you.
The topic at hand was how many amps will kill you from direct contact (tongue, skin, etc.).
How about this table? https://www.physics.ohi
ETA a few quotes from that page for the lazy:
In summary, ya don't want to exceed 100mA, that's where nasty shit and death happens. Which is what, high level, the first table showed.
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My bathroom's outlet is not GFCI. I'm pretty good with my electrical safety, over 4,000 days without an accident.
My bathroom's outlet is not GFCI. I'm pretty good with my electrical safety, over 4,000 days without an accident.
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Years ago when we were house shopping, you'd be surprised at how many older houses never updated their kitchen and bathroom outlets to have GFCIs.