Re: Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.

From: Roger Johansson (no-email_at_home.se)
Date: 12/12/04


Date: 12 Dec 2004 19:34:35 GMT

Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Your stimulus can either be too weak for anything to be registered at
> all, or too strong to be safe.
>
> The margin between these two thresholds on stimulus strength is
> probably too small to be safe for everyday usage other than in a
> *very* closely controlled environment (say, within shouting distance
> of an ICU, with trained medical personnel controlling the apparatus,
> given a rather specific medical indication for doing it).

There is a big margin between what can be sensed by the skin and what
could kill you, or damage your body in any way.

But, of course you need to have a brain to do anything with electricity,
just like you need a brain to cross a street without getting killed.

Using normal precaution is of course necessary, like using a small battery
to drive this circuit, not the mains power. And start testing on a suitable
part of the body, like a leg.

-- 
Roger J.


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