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⚡ "It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps" ⚡
Why people recommend it
Afrotechmods examines the saying that current rather than voltage kills, and why voltage still matters through body resistance; linked in electrical safety discussions.
In their words
This video states that if you were to model the human body as a 100 picofarad capacitor with a 1500 ohm resistor in series, a high voltage static shock would pass a very high current through the body, but for an extremely short time (less than a microsecond).
hedgepig on electronics.stackexchange.com, Mar 2013. CC BY-SA.
Please see the video It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps at youtube that explains this topic in more detail.
hlovdal on electronics.stackexchange.com, Sept 2011. CC BY-SA.
The current is the issue.* - Check out "It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps"
Nick Gammon on arduino.stackexchange.com, Jan 2017. CC BY-SA.
