Will a 100 million volt DC current taser kill you?

Answer 1

Not necessarily. It depends on what your current is, and what two points you are shocked by. The current will depend on the resistance of your skin, and the resistance in the circuitry of the taser. The Human skin is generally about 2.4-16Mohms (depending on the moisture, and salinity of your skin at the time. 300mA(milliamperes or.300 amps) is enough to stop the human heart. Let's say current is I, resistance is R, and voltage is V. Ohm's law states that E=IR therefore I=E/R. For this scenario we will say your skin is at a comfortable 4M(mega or million) ohms. I=100MV/4Mohm, I=25. Yes, 25 amps will kill you. But lets say we put a resistor on the negative side of the circuit. (This is important, when you say 100MV I assume it's positive DC voltage, it would be the other way around if it were a -100MV) We will say the resistor is 1Gohms (or 1 billion ohms, this is a gigantic resistor, and is not practical because the resistance through air is less and the electricity would just arc.) . add this resistance to your skin and you have 1.004Gohms. I=100MV/1.004Gohm, I=0.099, this amperage in DC voltage is not enough to kill you, but it is more than enough to kill you with AC. Realistically, 100MVDC will kill you, but not by stopping your heart, because you would have to have two contact points that cause current to cross your heart, and a taser is superficial (skin or shallow flesh) but it would blow a pretty big hole in you. When we had LORAN stations in the Coast Guard they used really big capacitors(which store voltage kind of like a battery, but discharge rapidly [about the nanosecond range]) and a guy accidentally backed into one that built up a charge over years, just from the static in the air, of about 25KV ,or thousand volts, DC, and it blew two quart sized holes in his hind end.