RE: Off-topic: Home Electrical Wiring

[Hoover Alan <HooverA@tce.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: L Tremblay [mailto:ltct@concentric.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 9:00 PM
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re: Off-topic: Home Electrical Wiring


>It's not the volts that'll kill ya, it's the amps.

>Be careful. Rubber-soled shoes please!

>- Larry

This is a dangerous statement that I hear from time-to-time.  While it is
true that current passing through the heart is what usually causes
electrocution, keep one thing in mind:  It is the voltage that causes the
current to "flow".  The higher the voltage, the more current that flows.
Zero voltage produces zero current.  High voltage produces high current.  

If there is something close to 120 volts ac on your guitar amplifier 
chassis
and on your guitar strings (with respect to earth ground), and you touch
your strings with one hand and something connected to ground with the 
other,
you will likely get a dangerous electric shock, possibly fatal.  It's the
volts that produce the amps that'll kill ya.

Alan