"BigWallop" <spamguard@_spam_guard_.com> wrote in message
news:V%0Na.481$AE.3526920@news-text.cableinet.net...

<snip>

> I've just realised something Chris, you don't have my sense of humour.
:-))
> If you think of the human body as an electro-chemical machine, then the
> electrical impulses sent to the large muscles in the leg through your
> nervous system would amount to around the same amperage as it takes to
trip
> a 30mA RCD unit.

Well, I have a sense of humour, but using 'silly', if not downright stupid,
analogies can be extremely misleading for people who don't really have too
much understanding about electrical theory.

The advantage of this and similar NGs is that people who are knowledgeable
in certain fields can impart some of that knowledge to others who are less
knowledgeable. As threads continue, misleading or erroneous information can
be shown for what it is, so the overall knowledge base grows.

You are making claims, I suggest, that are not particularly easy to
disprove, but equally aren't necessarily valid just because they aren't easy
to disprove. They do, however, have little or no bearing on electrical
theory.

> If this is wrong, then show me your proof that it is.  If you can't, and
> there are plenty medical sites on the WWW. to look through, then smile and
> say to yourself "Well it may be true, it may not".  Only one thing else
> before I go.  Why is the trip setting taken to be 30mA ?

But surely you know the answer to that question? You probably repeat it to
yourself every time you get onto your bike. Of course it also depends on how
wide you happen to have your legs[1] as you stand before getting onto your
bike.

That's how implausible your analogy happens to be.

[1] As it happens, that will have some bearing on the effects of electric
shock, although most people wear shoes that offer some level of (imperfect)
protection[2]. It does, however, have a much greater bearing on quadrupeds
if the leccy company's stuff goes faulty and they happen to get themselves
into a fairly steep potential gradient, i.e. there may be sufficient
potential difference between front and back legs to kill the animal - and it
*does* happen.

[2] Never trust wellington boots, many are made with a high carbon content.