Ian,
>"Blown clear" is not quite what happens. With the kinds of voltages used
>in house wiring and amateur radio, there's not enough electrical energy
>available to propel a human body. The shock causes a violent muscle
>contraction and we literally throw ourselves clear - much harder than we
>could leap voluntarily.
This depends on the amount of Kentucky Fried Chicken that was consumed
the previous night:-)
>
>What happens depends very much on the method of contact, the posture at
>the time, and which muscles get stimulated. On a damp day in a grage
>with a bare concrete floor, I once saw somebody tinkering with a live
>240V socket and go flying across the room - but that's because he was
>squatting down, and the shock contracted all his major leg muscles. What
>happened when he hit the opposite wall was much worse than the electric
>shock.
Phil G4ZOW/M
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