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08-06-2018, 11:44 AM
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Re: Electrician Incinerated by High-voltage Electricity During Maintenance
If I was really dead from that shock, I would never know and feel anything. Only felt numbness of may hand and headache maybe with 5-second memory loss when I was back from darkness. Bet the shock was pretty strong and I was lucky.
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08-06-2018, 12:18 PM
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Re: Electrician Incinerated by High-voltage Electricity During Maintenance
Typical voltages for long distance transmission are in the range of 155,000 to 765,000 volts in order to reduce line losses.. For comparison, the voltage used in the electric chair for death penalty situations was between 5,000 and 200 volts Based on the above which I found on Google.. I think its safe to say his death was instant. Prisoner's who die from electric chair they say is "instantaneous" which I personally doubt and takes a few seconds of pain.. hope you can see where I got my assumption from. But, what I found doesn't explain how people survive lightening strikes as.. A tall thunderstorm cloud can hold over a 100 million volts of potentially 1 Billion!! Think we need a qualified electrician to school us or mad homebrew scientist like "Doc" from back to the future!! |
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08-06-2018, 02:06 PM
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Re: Electrician Incinerated by High-voltage Electricity During Maintenance
You don't stop feeling pain until the circuits in your brain are done. You are considered dead when the heart stops beating. That's why we have thousands of stories of people who died and came back. They were physically dead, but the electrodes in the brain were still functioning. They can still work for many minutes after the heart has stopped. Most deaths we witness in this section of people with limbs torn off, being chopped up alive, chain saw beheadings, etc, still have a functioning brain. The brain acts like the brain in a car. When it senses something wrong, it starts to go into over-drive, sending messages to different areas of the body. It can decide what needs to feel pain, and doesn't anymore. That's why you see people set on fire, they appear as if they tell themselves "fuck it, i'm done" and just sit through it. They stopped feeling it. Electricity being a matter or electromagnetism that flows through the body, is like tiny peiricing needles entering the "+" and exiting the " -" ....."voltage" would determine how many of those needles are flowing at once through the body. Wire, being metal, takes ages for it to deteriorate from a constant flow of these things, but even it will rot over time from it- (that's why aluminum was replaced with copper) -- Positioning is most important. The + and the - would determine if he felt anything at all. Executioners placed the receiving electrodes on the head, current on the feet, hands, so that current of 50k little needles, pulsated at once through the entire body, mostly focused on the brain. Pulsate intervals are dependent on amperage. In the case of this poor sap, his head was way above the + and the - points of entry and exit. His straddling it would suggest his ass was the receiving end of the current, and the wires the entry end. Which basically amounts to, his brain being the last place having little needles destroying contact points. Those sparks and cooking inside, are those electromagnetism breaking down the soft proteins, and losing contacts, and they reestablish somewhere, break, and so on, eventually working to the upper portions of the body. The amps would determine how fast it happens, which couldn't be determined here, since amps are used in accordance to length. If he was right at the power source, each interval would be slower. If he was miles out, the intervals would be more frequent. Needless to say, he didn't feel it for long, but given the circumstances, I believe he felt the initial touch of 750 thousand needles pulse through his body, at least once, before his brain said "fuck this" and shuts down all the nerve endings. |
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08-06-2018, 05:24 PM
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Re: Electrician Incinerated by High-voltage Electricity During Maintenance
Thanks man exactly why I love this place - everyday is a school day and I just learned something new!! Beers for you !! |