Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 27 May 2007 00:15:45 +0000, James Sweet wrote:

Nowhere near, most NST are good for 20-30mA and by their nature are current
limited, potentially dangerous, but not automatically lethal. Microwave oven
transformers on the other hand are another thing entirely. Safety is
important, and any high voltage should be respected and used carefully, but
overblown dire warnings accomplish nothing. I was playing with NSTs by the
time I was 10 years old, I've made it this far.

So it can't kill then?


If you have certain medical conditions, or someone hits you over the
head with it. it takes about 15 ma through the heart to stop it.
Unless you are holding both terminals when someone turns it on, its
unlikely that you'll grab the second terminal. You are more likely to be
injured trying to get away from it.


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Michael A. Terrell
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