Anti-Taser clothes.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

They already make stainless-steel-fiber faraday jackets (worn by high tension line workers, the kind that get a helicopter ride to work). Good old chain mail and metal armor would both work as well.

Tim

Metal/Iron conducts electricity... so that doesn't sound so good ;)

On the other hand it's hard material... tasers seem to work with needles that need to penetrate something first.

However maybe very hard plastics that don't (or hardly) conduct any eletricity would be a better/safer bet ;)

In case tasers get some kind of sticky plugs or so ;)

However then again 40.000 to 60.000 volts seem quite a lot...

Maybe under such circumstances even plastics becomes conductive ?

Bye, Skybuck.

I did not realize that the taser fires two pointed electrodes and administers a special waveform designed to cause involuntary muscle contractions that effectively immobilize an assailant. I found this reference from the Wiki:

It seems that highly conductive clothing might render the device less effective by essentially shorting the output, which must be current limited to something like 20 to 100 mA. I can't imagine it being able to supply more than about 100 watts, which would be only 2 mA at 50kV. Perhaps it uses a series of high power, short duration bursts. But if conductive clothing would have a resistance of perhaps 100 ohms between any two likely points of entry of the darts, then it would take one amp to get 100 volts. However, if the darts have only a small exposed conductive tip, and good insulation that also penetrates the skin, conductive clothing would not help. But I doubt the darts would penetrate even 20 gauge steel, and if your armor is grounded then you would be protected in case one dart sticks to it and the other lands on the ground.

Maybe some means of automatically sensing the location of the insertion, and then having a robotically controlled wire cutter deployed to sever the wires, might be the way to go.

Another deterent to anyone attempting to use a taser might be to wear a vest of explosives and electrically controlled detonators. You would be blown up, but it would also take out whoever tased you, and his buddies.

Paul

I like this one:

Explosive armor:

:)

Q: Will it be triggered by a taser ? :)

Bye, Skybuck ;)

Here's an idea...

Might be good for a laugh..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

If you get DD breast implants, that might make the chest area taser resistant..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

Your tin hat is a start...

D from BC wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Number One;prevent the darts from penetrating to your skin. thick leather would suffice.

#2; insulate discharge from your skin. #3; provide alternate path for discharge.

Have a surgeon implant fine wire under your skin connecting all parts of the body. Or wear chain mail.

Bad idea.

Odd are a Taser won't kill a healthy person. I don't know how your police force is trained, but over here, if the Taser proves to be ineffective, the police will escalate as needed to subdue the subject. If that means putting a couple of 9mm rounds in them, so be it.

Rather than having it come to that, "Please! Tase me bro!"

Which would be fine if police were only allowed to use a taser on a person whom they could otherwise justifiably shoot. But we've clearly seen tasers being used in situations where the victim is merely being uncooperative. And some deaths have resulted.

Sylvia.

Like even unruly children in school...

It might be more pleasant to wear the mesh clothing, but fake a bit of writhing in agony so that they don't bother to get out the real gun.

Chris

Here is some information on the electrical characteristics of the taser:

It used to be on Taser's website but for some reason they removed it.

Chris

So, cooperate.

A good Tasing is still probably better than getting the Rodney King treatment. Some people can be killed simply by immobilizing them with handcuffs. There's not much that the cops can do to sort out people at risk from drug use from the healthy population.

If you are that sensitive to electrical shocks, you might want to stop playing around inside your PC.

Welcome to the psychotics' club.

Rich