Yes, I know the toroid is wonky. I'll smooth it out before it's done.

Amazing!!

@jenandjuice1111 thanks!

You're correct in concept, but your quantity is wrong. The amount of amperage to stop a human heart can be measured in milliamps.

@Metahuman Yes you are correct on that point.

@Triphid of course the resistance of the human body is so high that in order to get milliamps across the heart you would have to have ,oh, I don't know, I can't calculate it off the top of my head because i don't remember what the human body resistance is, i think its in the mega ohm range, not sure how many though, and a lot of it has to do with how it hits you.

I've been hit with 120 volts a lot with no problem. I've been hit with as high as 15000 volts from a neon sign transformer more than once.

And once I almost killed myself when I thought I had a completely discharged high-voltage capacitor and it wasn't.

@Metahuman Big capacitors are impressive. Guy at work once accidentally dropped a large screwdriver on an almost fully-charged one. Result: a BANG heard throughout the whole building and a melted screwdriver.

@Coffeo did it explode? Or just melt the screwdriver? Big capacitors can be like a grenade when they explode.

@Metahuman The capacitor didn't explode, fortunately. Guy was pretty close; could have been nasty.

Agree!

@jenandjuice1111 had a vandegraff generator as a kid also cool

@bobwjr those are sweet too. Probably a little safer as well. Anything involving electrostatics is interesting