On 27 March 2015 at 17:18, Ryan O'Connor wrote: > How does one actually get a shock from DC? For example I've put my > fingers between an air spark from a flyback transformer on a humid day > for a second or two, and felt nothing. Estimated 40k volts. > It's easy enough. And you were lucky. At 100 V_ DC death is easy enough. My long ago holiday work showed me that at 50 VDC on a humid day you get annoying shocks on the back of your hands if working on telephone "distribution frames" A friends managed full can't-let-go arm muscle lockup with 12V whole standing in Salt water using a 12V (faulty) lantern and holding a circuit completing metal "Flounder (fish) spear. Looking down my original post which you should have trimmed off but didn't :-) - I now see that I told the longer versions of the above there. So the better answer is - read all of the original post and you'll have some good examples. Russell --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .