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IIRC Platinum was, ZVS flybacks aren't deadly. Possibly under ideal conditions they are. I have a microwave inverter transformer, THAT is deadly with ZVS, a few hundred mA at a couple of kV
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Electrocuted implies that you did not survive having current pass through you.
Electric shock is the one you are looking for, which means you lived to tell the tale.
I think a regular LOPT driven with a royer "ZVS" driver can certainly kill if the current travels in the right places. If you were using a homemade secondary which usually only puts out a few kV and a much higher current then the risk of electrocution if you touched it would probably be higher.
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I guess it depends massively on all kinds of factors, skin moisture content, input voltage, flyback model, amount of electrocution time etc . . . I've been shocked once by accidently touching the HT output with a screwdriver, it must have broken down the insulation on the handle. Gave me a bit of a jolt but licking a fresh 9V battery is worse.
I don't think skin moisture makes much difference when you get into the kv range but I think it definitely could have an effect when getting a shock from mains or similar voltages and speaking of getting shocks from barrerys I learnt the hard way that its not a good idea to remove the insulation from wires with your teeth if the other end is attached to a 12v battery OUCH!
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Destroyer of mosfets wrote ...
I don't think skin moisture makes much difference when you get into the kv range but I think it definitely could have an effect when getting a shock from mains or similar voltages and speaking of getting shocks from barrerys I learnt the hard way that its not a good idea to remove the insulation from wires with your teeth if the other end is attached to a 12v battery OUCH!
or stepper motor drivers. i have that bad habit too...
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zvs deadly?
