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> You break skin at about 50VDC.

What does breaking skin mean in this context? My understanding was that humans largely act like a resistor with some parasitic capacitance and inductance. Wouldn't more voltage equal more current in a mostly linear relation?

R0b0t1 on April 6, 2022 [–]

You'll feel it shock you. It overcomes the surface resistance of not particularly moist skin and makes your nerves tingle or your muscles twitch.

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