[rescue] Shifted Sun GDM-500PS...

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Sat Dec 20 18:08:04 CST 2003


nimitz at ns1.nimitzbrood.com wrote:
>>From what I understand, having been shocked more than once, the path of travel with one hand is down the side and out the feet if they're grounded enough.  It misses the heart or hits it less.
> 
> If you have both hands in the mix and it goes across the chest you might as well have had a defibrilator put on you because it does almost the same thing.
> 

Remember:

It's volts that jolts, but mills that kills.

Touching high voltage with one hand while the rest of you
is insulated is much less dangerous than even moderate
voltage running *through* you.



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