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Re: You use a utility transformer?!
Hi Ed, All,
In high school a Teslaphile related a story to me in which he
accidently picked up a 15 kV, 60 mA transformer by the HV electrodes
thinking that it was unplugged. He said that it threw him across the
room. He was in bed for a week before his arms could be moved.
There was a story in the local news about two surveyers who got
fried by a 13 kV, 100 kva power line. The first surveyor threw his
metal tape measure over the line, presumably, to measure the height.
The second surveyor leaped at the first surveyer to push him off.
When the first surveyors chest was contacted by the second surveyors
hands, a hole several inches in diameter was blown therein (heart
exploded by steam explosion) and the second surveyor lost his hands as
they were blown off by a similar steam explosion (blood boiled
instantly). This was reported by witnesses. By the time the bodies
could be disconnected They had caught fire and charred and had to be
identified by personal affects.
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Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: You use a utility transformer?+ACE-
+AD4-Original Poster: Ed Phillips +ADw-evp+AEA-pacbell-dot-net+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-It's not obvious to me that a distribution transformer would
+AD4-necessarily be more lethal than a neon sign transformer with
equivalent
+AD4-voltage output. Any current over a few mils, (passing through the
+AD4-chest) should be lethal in the long run . I know there's a lot of
data
+AD4-on morbidity vs time of exposure, but I think getting across a 15 kV
60
+AD4-ma NST (say between the hands) would have the same results as getting
+AD4-across a 15 kV, 100 kVA transformer.
+AD4-
+AD4-Ed
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