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0 pointsttsda6y ago0 comments

It's impossible for a 240V outlet to deliver 10A through your body. Unless you're made of metal or something.

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Think the point is that the voltage won't collapse under the load.

Exactly, you can get zapped by tens of thousands of volts from a van de Graf generator and be fine, and you can die from 110V mains. The difference is the importance of the supply.

jjeaff6y ago

But you don't need 10Amps to kill you. Just a few hundred milli-amps is enough to kill a human.

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