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You are not conductive enough to get anywhere near 10% of the circuit's capacity. Therefore, the supply might as well be an infinite amp supply. You, in any particular situation, act as a particular ohm resistor. The amps that flow through you from mains voltage or big solar arrays will be directly proportional to the volts.

If a 120V 15A supply puts 50mA through you, then a 120V 100A supply will also put 50mA through you.

A supply that's "5000VAC at a 1.0 nano amps" really means that it starts at 5000 volts but super rapidly drops to zero volts as it conducts. A household supply is going to have negligible voltage drop by the time it turns deadly.

Edit: The other way to put it is that 99.9% of supplies don't give you a certain number of volts and amps. They give you a certain number of volts and they have an amp limit. If you're not approaching the amp limit then the only thing that matters is the volts.



I get what you're saying, amps are pulled, not pushed. But you should consider ohms law. Hand to foot, with a dry hand, typically is 400ohms. You can pull a lot of amps through 400 ohms if the voltage is high enough


The focus here is the 30-750 volt range with tens of amps, with a secondary mention of neighborhood power lines. For injury purposes, we can treat all of these as having unlimited amps available. By the time there's enough kilowatts going through your body to notice the curve shifting, we're well past the point of wondering whether or not you die.


120v at 400 ohms is greater than the 40ma required to harm the heart and kill someone.


Yes I agree?

My point is that the number of amps you can get from the circuit is irrelevant, it's "more than enough" and that's all you need to know beyond the voltage and the exact way the human is being exposed.


Ah, I apologize. I misconstrued your position


Ohms law calculator:

400 ohms at 110 volts = 275 ma. More than lethal. 30 watts.

400 ohms at 220 volts is double that - a bit over half an amp. Lethal (obviously). 60 watts.

400 ohms at 1500 volts is 3.75 amps - 5.6kw. Enough to physically cook someone pretty quickly.




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