[LargeFormat] A most useful manufacturer...

[Alex Le Heux]

I've lived in a country with unprotected 220V sockets all my life, and I
assure you that electrocution is not something that we worry about.
Actually, I may have heard of someone getting electrocuted once, but that
was about 10 years ago.

I myself have had 220V zap me numerous times, and not only am I still
alive, but I also have not developed any speach impediments or strange
facial tics!

220V is grossly overrated as a way of killing a person. Tripping over
shoelaces is a much more effective weapon!

Cheerio,

Alex

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM -0800, Brock Nanson wrote:
> The catch is: Current = Voltage / Resistance
> 
> If your body has a fixed resistance, then grabbing hold of 220 results in
> twice the current of 110V!  And as Mark says, current is what makes you
> dead...
> 
> There's a real good reason why Australian outlets have a switch for the
> socket!
> 
> Brock
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mark blackman" <mark.blackman1@btinternet.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 1:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] A most useful manufacturer...
> 
> 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "lnphoto" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com>
> >
> >
> > > Yeah but down there you run 220v so you can kill yourself twice as dead,
> > > half as fast as us Yanks running low voltage.
> > I don't want to sound pedantic, but you run several million volts through
> > yourself when you comb your hair (if you've got any left) or stroke a cat
> (I
> > was going to write pussy, but that's for another mailing list). It's not
> the
> > volts you want to watch, but the amps.
> 
> 
> 
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