human jump start (couldn't sleep last night)

[sathorburn]

If this is Obvious, and well known I do apologise.

 

If your battery was dead, and you had no jump leads. Could you get get another car near the battery, get one person to touch both positives, and another person to touch both negatives, then jump the car:

 

Would this cause:

-Pain

-Death

-The car not to start

-a cracking new afro style

 

I know people do conduct but, I can't work it out??!?!?!?

 

Cheers Stuart

[michael]

It worked for Ali G

[JustGav]

No it won't work for obvious reasons, while the human body may conduct, it certainly has too much resistance to conduct 12v to start a car....

 

Please feel free to prove me wrong.... *grin*

[AndyT]

You can weld nails together with a standard battery. Feel free to try though. Oh yeah 50 - 100 milli Amps is usually fatal.

[sathorburn]

It worked for Ali G

 

Lol, watched that the other night. that may be why it came in to my head at 3:37 this morning......

[sathorburn]

You can weld nails together with a standard battery. Feel free to try though. Oh yeah 50 - 100 milli Amps is usually fatal.

 

if they can weld nails, i think my little fingies wouldn't escape in the best condition.

 

however two people suggesting I try it in one thread, thus injuring or killing myself, was it either of your pints I knocked over at the pub on Friday??

[paul_y3k]

if the people were wearing rubber soled shows, would they be insulated ?

looks like i found the topic for tonights, drunken pub discussion

[tbourner]

I don't understand batteries, how come sticking a screwdriver across the terminals results in big sparkage but putting your fingers on both does bugger all?

[AndyT]

I don't understand batteries, how come sticking a screwdriver across the terminals results in big sparkage but putting your fingers on both does bugger all?

 

Probably cos you're insulated as Paul Y3K says. Wouldn't recommend trying it it shoes off stood in a puddle though.

Gotta know what you're doing folks. Way leccy works low volts means you gotta have more amps to do useful stuff like start your supe.

You can have hi volts and do no harm re. Van De Graf generator from school. It's only miniscule amps so just your hair stands up.

The Amps is were the harm is.

[leelbuk]

I guarantee you it will do nothing - 12v has too low a potential for any noticable amount of current to travel through your body - you will feel nothing.

 

Amperage is the amount of work that electricty can do and Voltage is the potential to do it. The reason why you can weld with car batteries is that even though they are only 12v they can release a massive amount of amps but the voltage is so low that across your body (a massive resistor effectively) 12v does not have enough potential to transfer this current through your body.

 

As safe as it is with your hands I wouldn't suggest doing the 9v battery tongue test on your car battery though...