tommyhalpinkelly
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- Nov 21, 2018
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Don't know if anyone has a background in electrical engineering. My first attempt was with a High Voltage capacitor in a microwave oven back in 2015. I plugged it into the socket, turned it on (it was running as normal just without the cover), and using two knives, touched the terminals of the capacitor.
I heard on online forums that it could cause instantaneous cardiac arrest.
It didn't obviously, but I got the worst electric shock ever. The muscles in my arms (not skin but muscles) were in pain for 15 minutes..Damn, that was pretty painful. The rating was about 2300V and 0.92 microfarads. I know it's the amperage that kills you and not the volts.
I wonder why it didn't kill instantly because I watched on the TV show, Curious and Unusual Deaths a guy who died after trying to probe his broken microwave. He was apparently killed by the capacitor.
Some have said that the reason I didn't go into cardiac arrest is that my body was in contact with the capacitor for too short of a time. Apparently, large jolts that instantly stop the heart are extremely unlikely with any household device unless you have an extraordinarily weak heart along with low resistance on skin.
This guy in South America died instantly after touching an electric pylon.
It seems that to die from electricity instantaneously, you need to get shocked by appliances that have "industrial levels" of electricity running through them
I heard on online forums that it could cause instantaneous cardiac arrest.
It didn't obviously, but I got the worst electric shock ever. The muscles in my arms (not skin but muscles) were in pain for 15 minutes..Damn, that was pretty painful. The rating was about 2300V and 0.92 microfarads. I know it's the amperage that kills you and not the volts.
I wonder why it didn't kill instantly because I watched on the TV show, Curious and Unusual Deaths a guy who died after trying to probe his broken microwave. He was apparently killed by the capacitor.
Some have said that the reason I didn't go into cardiac arrest is that my body was in contact with the capacitor for too short of a time. Apparently, large jolts that instantly stop the heart are extremely unlikely with any household device unless you have an extraordinarily weak heart along with low resistance on skin.
This guy in South America died instantly after touching an electric pylon.
It seems that to die from electricity instantaneously, you need to get shocked by appliances that have "industrial levels" of electricity running through them
