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In Reply to: RE: 1kV won't jump very far at low altitude. posted by fmak on May 16, 2009 at 04:07:21:
"One is brave when young."
Well, I happened to have the specs for this equipment and it is based on the human body model which means it only supplies a very limited amount of charge for each discharge then it's spent until recharged...something like 10's of pico farrads. Besides, it's just a toe. I have four more on that foot. Luckily the toe is fine.
"It is not voltage but curent to ground that kills; 5 mA thru the heart and you are dead."
I'm well aware of this and so very carefully made my selection of body parts to ionize.
"Scope probes are not reliable, even expensive ones. One careless error, and it can really hurt."
In general I'm not very comfy working around high voltages but in this case allowed my ability to engineer a non deadly self experiment combined with a great curiosity of the unknown and flat out boredom to overcome my fears of whatever pain, disfigurement, or loss of life that might be the result. The QA dude was standing there watching and thought I was insane. You might say it was necessary to put full trust in my understanding of the physics involved in order to work up the nerve. I precisely predicted the results of the experiment before carrying it out adding to my confidence in my understanding of how ESD will occur. Trust in the theory grasshopper.
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