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    Quote Originally Posted by maks View Post
    According to Google the human body has a resistance of about 100k ohms
    cmon man, you already knew google was talking out it's ass before you posted this
    the "resistance of a human body" varies wildly based on cathode & anode/common locations & distance, skin galvanometry (ie. how sweaty you are) and much more

    the resistance can drop well below 1000 ohms between your left index finger and right one, if you shave of the epidermis and make electrode contact to the wet, subdermal layer

    also to consider - a human body contains both resistive and reactive components as an electrical load, so you must work with the total impedance, not resistance alone, for calculating power dissipation
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    Quote Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts View Post
    cmon man, you already knew google was talking out it's ass before you posted this
    the "resistance of a human body" varies wildly based on cathode & anode/common locations & distance, skin galvanometry (ie. how sweaty you are) and much more

    the resistance can drop well below 1000 ohms between your left index finger and right one, if you shave of the epidermis and make electrode contact to the wet, subdermal layer

    also to consider - a human body contains both resistive and reactive components as an electrical load, so you must work with the total impedance, not resistance alone, for calculating power dissipation
    a half amp is barely lethal at 0 ohms of resistance bob.
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