it's electrical harness smoke, but it might work
Posted on 09/22/2018 8:42:33 PM PDT by Morgana
Perhaps what killed him was the arc flash. While we think of not touching the wire (conductor), even air can conduct electricity. Looking at the gif in post 12 above, the victim appears to have reached up with one hand, then the other to a HV conductor having both flashed and apparently vaporized his arms. In these cases, the arc-flash overcurrent is in the 10,000s of amps. The arc-flash alone produces temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun.
to be perpetually filed under the heading of “current events”
Thread winner!
Another “hold my beer and watch this” moment.
Nothing like inconveniencing everybody for hours because you act like a drunk asshole. I wonder what other menacing act’s he did in his own state.
He didn’t even live to see the following night’s division title clinching victory
Legacy obit actually mentions cause of death
<<Michael Ryan Vigeant, 24, of Hudson, NH, died September 20, 2018 in a train surfing accident.
Extra Crispy!
He died doing what he loved.
Being an idiot.
Anyone going to buy his new cookbook? HOW TO DEEP FRY WITHOUT OILS.
democRAT bolts by the look of them
it's electrical harness smoke, but it might work
I see a car I loved and hated in the background.
heh heh heh, yeah love hate relationships are the hardest, and most enduring
That’s a possibility too; after all, that’s how lightning works. Either way, once the current has a path to flow, it’s not voltage but amps.
Not quite. Technically they are simultaneous.
Current or flow of charge assumes a potential energy difference or voltage in a circuit. In an open circuit, you are correct, there is still a voltage, but no current.
When the measure of 0.1 Amps as a lethal current, it is a current which may cause fibrillation of cardiac muscles, i.e. interferes with your heart functions.
Lethality of Arc-flash is due to the shock wave (explosion)(over pressure), Heat (Temperature of the arc exceeding the surface of the sun and causing 1st to 3rd degree burns, and charring the flesh), and actual vaporization of material in the pathway from the high potential to the ground.
More explicitly, in regards to current, it is more significant to look at current density in the path than current.
It isn’t the current source which is lethal as it is the voltage source, which when a circuit is formed, allows the current to flow.
Still and all, electric potential in terms of numbers is deceptive as to what current is generated. I noted in an earlier post the difference between 12,500 volt AC overhead wires and 750 volt DC third rail, but each is just as deadly as the other if current travels across a human heart. And just as significant, how a 50,000-volt taser is not designed to be deadly.
Shocking
However, the 12.5kV system arc-flash is closer to a 40lb TNT lb bomb blast, whereas the 750V arc flash is closer to a couple of M-80 firecrackers. Arc-flash safety for the public extends outwards of 40 ft from the incident, while the issues of current generally only regard lesser voltages within direct contact of the circuit.
The large kV voltage source faulting currents are in the ranges of say 12,000 to 75000 amps. Cardiac damage becomes a moot point at these voltage faults.
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