Question about current from stun gun

Aug 01, 2014 4 Replies
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Hi all, I noticed from another conversation that commercial stun guns are current limited to 1ma to 4ma hopefully making them non-lethal. I ran across this homemade stun gun that seems to light a bulb. I don't think



4 milliamps will do that. It is possible that the filament in the bulb is open and what is seen is an arc within the bulb. Take a look and tell me what you think, I think the output current from this might be lethal.
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Mikek


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Haven't seen the video and won't, but 1 or 4 mA has nothing to do with standards on these devices.

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A lot of web based resources concerning stun guns or tasers disappeared from the web, shortly after the death of Robert Dziekanski.

A supplement to the UK HOSDB2 doesn't seem to be web searchable. At ~5MB, I can't host it. A.B.S.E. upload attempts only produce errors.

RL

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Interesting. That document states the peak current from the M26 as 9 amps whereas this one says 18 amps:

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I guess the load conditions may have been different.

I think I put a link to that Carleton University document on the wikipedia page, but someone unlinked it.

Chris

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