On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:44 +0200, Naga wrote: > On Friday 11 August 2006 13:26, Alan Mckinnon wrote:
> > The current drawn through a conductor (in this case a live body) is > > determined by the voltage, and the resistance of the body itself. > > And in this case the surface that the body is in contact with. > > I other words don't stand in water when you get the shock (but rubber shoes > should work) :) On a side note, when I was still fixing things for a living I used to demonstrate to new trainees how current flow actually worked by deliberately touching the mains live on a running tv set in complete safety. Very very very few of them figured it out :-) The secret: - use one finger of one hand - wooden workbench - shoes alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list