Human Body Capacitance and Resistance

Not the unit that gets used in the operating room in an open heart surgery procedure, you retarded f*ck.

Also, given the hypothesized rapid rise time, doesn't most of the current flow on the surface ie skin - a literal "skin effect"?

OK - I get it now! I did that once with an expensive chip. A guy passed it to me and, unthinking, as I went to take it there was a big fat spark that leapt through its pins. Straight to the rubbish bin.

The worst place I ever encountered was an electronics lab at university. They had these plastic chairs and in winter just standing up from one would generate 1cm sparks. They were quite painful as well, and no doubt absolutely fatal to anything more sensitive than a vacuum tube.

YOu're such a liar, AlwaysWrong.

You should know bullshit, but you're AlwaysWrong.

right

He should know bullshit. It's his middle name.

No. Path of least resistance is the blood. Wires have 'skin effect'. Body limbs do not.

Just ask the lady newscaster that had her arm literally burned off by the current flow she experienced.

Even when they do not appear to have been damaged, the certainty that they have is unquestioned. It doesn't take much energy to burn one of those micron sized (or smaller) PN junctions and that is all that a chip is made up from.

I wish that everyone would attain that mindset for vulnerability.

You do not have to see sparks or feel charge movement to cause damage. As little as a few volts differential can do it in some locations. Most only need about 20V to get burned. So being charged to the point where you can see the discharge is not required to kill chips,

One should ALWAYS ground one's self to the same tie point that the ESD matting for the ESD safe workstation uses.

One should always ground one's self similarly whenever one approaches an ESD safe workstation to reduce ANY charge one might have to as near ground as possible. I have a habit of hitting ground before I touch ANYTHING. It is all about balance. If I am at the same potential as the mat and the chip sitting on it, the nothing can ever be transferred from me to anything.

You are such a retarded, pussy boy Williams.

Read it again. It is obvious that I was correcting him. Obvious unless you arrived here from your mother's ass, s*****ad.

You're such a liar, AlwaysWrong.

There's that scat fetish oozing out again, DimBulb.

No... sorry... I do not like you, therefore I have no scat fetish. I'll let you work the math there. Bwuahahahahaha!

You got that wrong too.

Ah, DimBulb, you can admit your fetish. You do every day.

You can't do math.

Nope. You keep demonstrating just how wrong you are, _always_, AlwaysWrong.

What is this continuous connection that you have between motherhood and feces? You are one sick dude.

You claim to be a Christian, no?

John

He can't help himself. Poop is the center of his life.

John

Bodies certainly have skin effect. That's one reason high-frequency current burns skin but doesn't penetrate to internals.

All conductors have skin effect. It's inherent in the physics.

Wrong, as always.

John

I touch the other person, to equalize our potentials, before handing off anything that might care. Ditto touching a metal workbench.

John

Not at line frequencies, they don't. Idiot.

No, that is NOT the reason why, idiot. Nor does it number among the reasons why.

All metallic conductors have a skin effect at high frequencies.

Bulk mediums like a carbon comp resistor and like human flesh do not "conduct" the same way that a formed wire does. They do not conduct current in the same manner as single valence metallics do, and they do not experience your precious skin effect in any similar way whatsoever.

Yes, where it applies. The problem with you, Johnny, is that you do not know where it applies.

Yes, you are.

"Although skin effect limits Tesla currents to the outer fraction of an inch in metal conductors, the 'skin depth' of human flesh at typical Tesla coil frequencies is still of the order of 60 inches (150 cm) or more."

Check your facts, John. ;-)

Actually, they do. Skin effect is due to eddy currents. Alwayswrong is always wrong. ;-)

Tim