At 04.29 22/02/2004 +1300, you wrote:
>> But I didn't touch ground at all, how come that current flowed anyway?
>> I knew that ground is at the same potential of the Neutral wire.
>>
>> How can current flow by touching JUST the Live wire?
>
>Someone did discuss this.
>It's quite easy to get some flow resistively - shoes are often lowish
>impedance. Ceramic tiles are good insulators BUT dirt and moisture will
>provide leakage paths.
>
>Body capacitance is tens of pF and is fairly small.
>
>I've had a few shocks over the years from "single wire" events where the
>second connection would have been an inobvious leakage path to ground.

What can be the resistance of moisture, dirt, etc..?

1M ohm already looks so unrealistically low.. yet that would amount to
only 230 uA of current (at 230V), pretty little.

There's something I certainly miss / don't understand.. :(

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