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Does the USA use 110 volts. Does the USA use 110 volts.
It all depends upon the conditions.
Can a 120 volts kill you. Can 120 volts kill you. It can but it really is the current that kills you. Over 6 milliamps 006 Amps willcould kill you particularly if traveling pass the heart.
But it depends upon your resistance of your body from the 120V hot side to t. Therefore 120 volts can definitely kill you. Can 220 Volts Kill You.
You need voltage for the current to flow. In other words people that keep asking whether 220 volts can kill you are trying to determine whether that voltage can allow a fatal amount of electricity to flow through your body. As was noted before a voltage as low as 42 volts can kill.
I also believe that any voltage around 100v can prove fatal. Yes 120 VAC can kill you and so can as little as 4050 VDC by the way. Lets end the thread now in case it starts talking about ways on not how to kill yourself.
110VAC will kill you anyone telling you otherwise is an idiot. Turn off power if at all possible. Never work on live wiring with both hands keep one hand in your pocket to keep from accidentally grabbing something and making a complete circuit across the heart.
Always assume wires are live even if you have turned them off. It is not the Voltage that can kill humans it is the current that kills. Humans have died at as low as 42 volts.
Time is also a factor. A current of 01 ampere for a mere 2 seconds can be fatal. As Voltage Current x Resistance the current depends on body resistance.
The answer is very little. A current of as little as 0007 amps 7mA across the heart for three seconds is enough to kill. 01 amps 100mA passing through the body will almost certainly be fatal.
However the current involved in an electric shock is determined by the voltage and the resistance of the circuit. So yes 220 Volts is plenty to kill you if the source can supply sufficient current and if that killed you you would have been electrocuted. However if you are only injured and not killed by the electricity you would not have been electrocuted.
The amount of voltage have to be enough to overcome the bodys resistance So as you can see not only can 110 volts do you severe harm but is the number one cause of death from electrocution in the USA. It is very important observe electrical safety when working on or around energized circuits. Can a charged 120v high voltage capacitor really kill youHelpful.
Please support me on Patreon. Ordinary household 120 volts AC electricity is dangerous and it can kill. Voltage is the force that allows electricity to flow in a circuit.
Electrical current involves the flow of electrons and its measured in amps. The third factor involved in current flow is resistance the opposition to current flow measured in ohms. We can use a simple formula to calculate the current.
Current in Amps Voltage in Volts. Very strongFigure thisif a 120 volts can kill a human being then what would 650000 doId say roughly this many volts could kill about 650 elephantsDoes that tell you enough to stay away from it. Any electrical device used on a house wiring circuit can under certain conditions transmit a fatal current.
While any amount of current over 10 milliamps 001 amp is capable of producing painful to severe shock currents between 100 and 200 mA 01 to 02 amp are lethal. But my earlier point stands that touching 120V very unlikely to kill you if youre a healthy adult. Doesnt mean it cant happen.
But the statistics are down below 01 and most of those deaths were probably not from just touching 120V but from some more robust and sustained contact with physiological conditions contributing youth old age cardiac disease etc. It is perhaps worth noting that 1224V DC is just as deadly as 120240V AC. No it definitely isnt.
Theres naught deadly in voltage its the wattage that electrocutes you. In fact if you want to be precise it is the current Amps that kills you. John I agreed with you all along that it can kill you.
But the TS question was can him touching it kill him. Your NIOSH reference was about the fraction of electrocution deaths that were caused by 120V versus other voltages where the TS question was about the likelihood of a 120V encounter to produce death. That is because its voltage is very strong.
In fact its voltage will be high enough to overcome your skins resistance. It can pass through your skin into your blood vessels. If the level of amps is high enough it can do some serious damage to your body tissues.
It could even kill you. Its the current that kills you know. 120 volts at 20 amps can deliver a lethal amount of current.
Besides will an electric fence kill a mouse. What makes the idea work so well says Lamb is that fence chargers operate at high voltage – 3000 to 9000 depending on the model – which is more than enough to kill most mice. Voltage can be thought of as the force that pushes electric current through the body.
Depending on the resistance a certain amount of current will flow for any given voltage. Doubling the voltage will double the current and be more likely to kill you. So 240V is more dangerous than 120V.
Follow answered Dec 1 16 at 2041. Even 120 v can readily kill. It all depends upon the conditions.
Voltage doesnt put the heart into fibrillation the condition of erratic uncoordinated contractions with no net pumping action. As little as 5ma through the heart can put it into fibrillation. On the flip side you would need HUGE capacitances at 12 VDC to kill you roughly on the order of 15 Farads.
Obviously almost any battery can store well in excess of 100 joules a AA Eneloop stores roughly 9000 joules for example so given a low impedance path through the heart even a 12 VDC battery can kill. The important difference is the amount of potential energy or voltage the socket is able to supply to the device plugged into it. The most common electrical outlet in any home is a 110 volt.
Sometimes you may hear 110 volt plugs referred to as 120 volt. The 2 most common variations are 15 Amp and 20 Amp. The 120 volt is the wye voltage of 208 volts.
208173 120 volts. A single phase three wire panel will give you 110 and 220 volts. Does the USA use 110 volts.