Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi,3000^2 x 10nF x 0.5 = 0.045 joule! That's not enough... Should be like 10,000 times more energy....
But one just needs to look here for the answer ;-)) http://www.aerovox.com/pdf/Defib_Caps_Cat-2B.PDFNote all the warning labels for probably the most lethal line of caps out there!!
Cheers,
Terry
At 05:55 PM 5/9/2006, you wrote:
the one I took apart ( with the assistance of a friend) had a 3KVDC .01uf cap in it..... and a really nice diflourosulfide?/methane(?) spark gap ( which blew up and turned the interior aluminum parts a lovely purple) (( the reason why we took it apart stunk like all hell broke loose))Scot D Tesla list wrote:Original poster: "Jim Mora" <jmora@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Johnathan, Yes the burns from a pig one may not want to survive, yet the line is carrying far more current, not that it would matter much. Staying on topic, I was thinking more about 240 or 440 accidents which occur more frequently. It would be nice to have one in every household, especially past fifty! Say how big of cap/V is in those? Any know? Jim Mora