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Check this link:
The marketing is of course far from the truth when it comes to the voltage ratings, they derive it from very loose handling of mathematics... and a bit of free interpretation I guess ;)
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I was searching for the post (within a thread) for awhile sometime ago. There IS a cute little way they don't get slammed for false advertising. The answer is out there.... ("X-Files theme song" in background)
I think you could generate 2 million volts with light current from something about the size of a closet or a clothes washing machine..... Doesn't HAVE to be house.
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Its the volts that jolts but the mills that kills. its prabably a tiny flyback that operates at a low frequency so that the skin effect is eliminated and the victim can feel the shock
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haxor5354 wrote ...
Its the volts that jolts but the mills that kills. its prabably a tiny flyback that operates at a low frequency so that the skin effect is eliminated and the victim can feel the shock
The skin effect doesn't come into play until about 4MHz. (at least on flesh)
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i touched a flat bed scanner fluorescent tube transformer by accident once, and it didnt fell any shock at all, i could only smell burnt skin on my finger.
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haxor5354 wrote ...
Its the volts that jolts but the mills that kills. its prabably a tiny flyback that operates at a low frequency so that the skin effect is eliminated and the victim can feel the shock
It is just a stepup transformer and inverter, which charges a cap which is discharged through another stepup transformer. It isn't constant current like a transformer, it is a pulse transformer like in a camera. You can compare it to a camera, the few kv trigger voltage is from a cap charged by a stepup transformer, which discharges into a pulse transformer.
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haxor5354 wrote ...
i touched a flat bed scanner fluorescent tube transformer by accident once, and it didnt fell any shock at all, i could only smell burnt skin on my finger.
The frequency was just beyond your threshold of perception...
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