I know a guy who died from a 12v car battery, he took the battery out as it was covered in white deposit after acid had been leaking from an overcharge, so he took it to kitchen sink, and washed it all out nice and clean, then as he was carrying it back, he started to feel tingling through a small cut in his fingers, and the tingling started to get worst and worst, until he could not bear it anymore, so he dropped the battery from waste height and it landed on his bare foot, crushing it badly, 2 months later he died of gangrene.
And I think even 1.5v could kill you if you swallow it, including a button cell.
and as for my personal experience, whenever I come in contact with any exposed electrical parts, my natural reaction is violent, so if I had a screw driver in my hand it would go flying, and once I reacted so bad that I hit my elbow against a sharp corner and the pain from that cut was unbearable!
People fail to realise, that our body works on tiny signal voltages and if a large amount of current flows through our nerves, they will swamp these tiny control signals and even if you wanted to let go, the weaker signal will be overpowered by the stronger currents and not let go instead do the opposite, so if you were holding something that was electrocuting you, you will end up holding it even tighter! and slowly get roasted inside.
A woman once asked me to change her two round tube light fittings to normal standard pendulum lights, in her dining room/kitchen (a long room half used as dining and half as kitchen) and there were two switches one for each light, so i assumed both were on one circuit, so as she went in her cellar to switch each MCB off one by one until the light that was on went off, I shouted stop! as we only had one light on, so when it went off I took it that both lights are fed by the same MCB and so both must be dead now, so after wiring then first pendulum, I reached for the second one to work on some idiot had wired that to another MCB. I was ok only that the sparks went flying everywhere. Why do you think professional Electricians are called sparks, the woman went hysterical! are you Ok, are you Ok, and I replied no i am dead, and I am talking to you from hell!
End of the day I tell people that Energy can create, Energy can Destroy, Energy is just a tool that can do lots of things.
And I think even 1.5v could kill you if you swallow it, including a button cell.
and as for my personal experience, whenever I come in contact with any exposed electrical parts, my natural reaction is violent, so if I had a screw driver in my hand it would go flying, and once I reacted so bad that I hit my elbow against a sharp corner and the pain from that cut was unbearable!
People fail to realise, that our body works on tiny signal voltages and if a large amount of current flows through our nerves, they will swamp these tiny control signals and even if you wanted to let go, the weaker signal will be overpowered by the stronger currents and not let go instead do the opposite, so if you were holding something that was electrocuting you, you will end up holding it even tighter! and slowly get roasted inside.
A woman once asked me to change her two round tube light fittings to normal standard pendulum lights, in her dining room/kitchen (a long room half used as dining and half as kitchen) and there were two switches one for each light, so i assumed both were on one circuit, so as she went in her cellar to switch each MCB off one by one until the light that was on went off, I shouted stop! as we only had one light on, so when it went off I took it that both lights are fed by the same MCB and so both must be dead now, so after wiring then first pendulum, I reached for the second one to work on some idiot had wired that to another MCB. I was ok only that the sparks went flying everywhere. Why do you think professional Electricians are called sparks, the woman went hysterical! are you Ok, are you Ok, and I replied no i am dead, and I am talking to you from hell!
End of the day I tell people that Energy can create, Energy can Destroy, Energy is just a tool that can do lots of things.
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