Showing posts with label Electric Shock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric Shock. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

April 10, 2010

Electric Pole in the middle of a Road!!



Is this the 8th Wonder of the world?
In Igemebe North Constituency, Eastern Province-Kenya lies a mysterious and mixed up piece of what many might call an engineering mess.Right in the middle of Wiyara Road stands an electric pole.The completion of the road was to follow the installation of power to the area but the two projects ran in to each other resulting to the installation of an electric

Thursday, March 25, 2010

March 25, 2010

Effects of Excess Current on the human body




Below 1 milliamperes (<1mA)
Generally not perceptible

1 milliamperes (1mA)
Faint tingle.

5 milliamperes (5mA)
Slight shock felt. Not painful but disturbing. Average individual can let go. Strong involuntary reactions can lead to other injuries.

6-5 milliamperes (6-5mA)
Painful shock, loss of muscular control. The freezing current or "let-go" range. Individual cannot let go, but can be

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

March 23, 2010

Dangers of Electric Shock



The severity of injury from electrical shock depends on the amount of electrical current and the length of time the current passes through the body. For example, 1/10 of an ampere (amp) of electricity going through the body for just 2 seconds is enough to cause death. The amount of internal current a person can withstand and still be able to control the muscles of the arm and hand can be less