I remembered one time I got shocked by by MSD ignition on my car. My friend was cranking the engine to see if I was getting spark to the plugs. Well after that i knew for sure that I was getting spark. I have never got shocked by anything that freakin strong, I swear my ***** and feet were tingling right after that. I think someone told me that there is 80,000 volts running through a high energy ignition.

 

volts don't kill people, amperes do. As little as 1A can blow you away. Not only are three phase power lines high voltage, they have a lot of current as well. That circuit wants to complete, and guess who the shortest path of resistance is (you).

 

for a second I thought this was gonne be about the bose desgined active electric shock absorber ( suposidly it works...and alot better than the old active system made by....lotus i think. but im scared of anything out of the bose labs )

 

Bose is a good company, their pro audio and acoustic software are top notch.

 

I guess that could be...all ive ever used was there consumer gear.

 

This is true, but there is a direct relationship between volts and amps depending on resistance. I've heard of dudes shorting out ignition wires with a test light to find dead cylinders on HEI systems, getting zapped, and almost arc-welding their junk to the fender from the lightning bolt that shot out of the tip of their tool! (Ooooh, that hurts just thinking about it)

 

And if 220V doesn't work you are dead anyway so it doesn't much matter.

The worse static shock I've got was from just walking across the carpet. I went to change the channel on the cable box(controller was dead) and a spark shot from my finger to the box about 1inch away and TURNED OFF THE CABLE BOX AND TV!!! That kinda stung.

 

That is correct for DC voltage. v=ir (voltage = amps * resistance (in ohms)). Air has incredibly high impedence, therefore there is almost no current. Water, on the other hand, is incredibly dangerous because it has a relatively low impedence. DC power is also a simple relationship, power = voltage * amps. AC power is not quite so simple because there is phase involves. Most power in your home is single phase AC, or 120 volts of power at 60 Hz, or 60 cycles per second. I am an electrical/computer engineer fyi.

 

With AC the 60 Hz can be the killer. It's just the right pulse to **** up your heart beat and make your heart just shake instead of beat properly, and pump blood. In Europe they use 50 Hz cause it is lower than the heart beat rate, and has much less of a chance of killing you.
The max for working live voltage at work without precautions is 30 Volts. Because thats the lowest votlage that they understand that can kill someone. We need rubbermats and gloves above 30.
And .01 Amps can kill if discharged near your heart or brain.

ok.....
I'm done

 

Actually, it is the other way around, dry air is a better insulator. That is why the static electicity that you generate, sliding off the seat, is not dissipated as well (until you touch a good ground anyway )