all the worry about capacitors on here...i am still morbidly curious about them. i have yet to even discharge one( i use the waiting technique).
aren't stun guns just a capacitor bank? i understand the basic stun guns operate at many tens of thousands of volts, whereas a guitar amp may push 500 volts or so. so why is the amp considered so lethal whereas, as we sit here reading this right now, there are probably hundreds of people getting "stunned" worldwide, some even for fun, to make a Youtube video or something.
sure, i have heard of a token few police fatalities, but there is usually struggling and drugs and adrenaline and hidden cop brutality involved in those cases as well.
do the capacitor banks in amplifiers really store that much more current than the juice in a stun gun? i'm just wondering if maybe the capcitor thing is a bit overblown.
certainly i would bet getting popped is painful and surprising, but if your work is unplugged, then what more could it entail....?
and i know everyone is going to yell at me, but i have never read of a case of anyone being killed by an unplugged home appliance, be it TV, amp, whatever, and i have been reading the news since 1980 or so. so whats the deal, why the hype...?