• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Please do. I don’t know what’s wrong with it

      Edit: thanks folks! I feel like an idiot because that’s super obvious. :-)

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        17 days ago

        the path of least resistance for the current would be down one connected bolt, then around the top plate, and up the other battery connected bolt, never down the pole, so the ceiling/floor gets heated up, possibly burn

        note: those bolts must be supper long to go from ceiling to floor

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          17 days ago

          That’s why you connect it directly to main so it doesn’t require a closed loop to create a chemical reaction,.

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        17 days ago

        12V from a car battery doesn’t do much damage. You’d need, I think, 50V or 52V to get through the skin. Now, of course, if someone were to stick it in their mouth or some other area that doesn’t have skin, it’s a different story, then they’d get heavy burn marks on the path the electricity takes. So for safer electrocution, use AC, as that will also activate your muscles and push you away. While with DC, you’ll stick to it, as you grab onto it with a death grip. For advice on hurting yourself safely, just watch electroboom on yt.

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      17 days ago

      Maybe if you just connect one side of the life wire to it. And ground the other one. That could work better