......
>Assuming the distributed capacitance of a human body is around 20pF then
>your capacitative reactance at 50Hz is about 1.5G Ohms. This means that if
>you are isolated in free space around 16uA will flow at the point where
>you are touching the mains. This is well within safe limits, probaly too
...


not true, or not likely, since the case where anything would really happen
is if the wire is touched when the mains is at the peak, so, worst case,
it's 311V (peak) into 20pF, instantaneous.

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Roland                                      l>
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