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Nathi ORea
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- What is the electrical resistance across the human body
I was researching what the total electrical resistance of the human body was and got some quite far ranging values. It seems to range from 1, OOO to 1OO,OOO ohms. Some quite elaborate ways of testing it too.
Then I thought I'd just get the old multimeter out. I have two and both measured about the same. Depending on the part of the body, it was about 2 Mohm to about 15 Mohm. I tried my dog too, but it kept reading over limit.
This seems like I would be able to grab mains power quite easy and not even feel it? I = 24O/2,OOO,OOO = .12 mA?
Is this right? What am I missing?
Then I thought I'd just get the old multimeter out. I have two and both measured about the same. Depending on the part of the body, it was about 2 Mohm to about 15 Mohm. I tried my dog too, but it kept reading over limit.
This seems like I would be able to grab mains power quite easy and not even feel it? I = 24O/2,OOO,OOO = .12 mA?
Is this right? What am I missing?