BE CAREFUL with your 120V side of things
I have a 1998 Palomino Bronco Truck Camper. I decided to exchange the Centurion 3000 power converter for a Progressive Dynamics 4700 series unit. The installation went great and all the 12V and 12...
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RJsfishin wrote:
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It's not voltage that hurts or kills us
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Yeah, well go tell the choir.
Is that why 12 volts at 200 amps you won't even feel,
but 120 at 10 amps you could be dead ??
You don't understand the physics of what you said and by your tone, you probably don't want to understand but I'm going to try anyway;
You CANNOT run 200amps at 12V through your body. The body has too much resistance and cannot conduct well enough for any significant current to pass through your body at that potential. Because of our high resistance, it takes the potential of the higher voltage to over come that resistance and make it possible for the current to conduct through our bodies.
So in the case of electrocution death, it takes voltage to cause the current to pass through you. One without the other does no harm.
You should go to a museum that has a working Tesla coil to experience what I mean. It will run many thousands of volts through your body with very little current.
