Timeline for What effects would discharge of high-voltage supercapacitor through one's hand cause?
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| Jul 24, 2021 at 23:01 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Goodies It's called 'a cloud. These capacitors produce lightning bolts. | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 16:14 | comment | added | Goodies | @A rogue Ant Thanks for the input.. edited the answer below.. I found some more online sources, and I changed "energy" into "coulombs charge". You can store a lot of charge in it, but the energy is limited, one of the reasons supercapacitors can't replace batteries.. | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Even the NASA one (they're involved somehow in the development or funding thereof, with an appropriate breakdown voltage, you'd need a thickness of at least a mm, severely limiting the charge per area. No-one's bothering with high voltage applications, so there'd always be an inverter in the way of direct discharge like this, unless: rule of cool. @Goodies | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Pretty sure they'd be enormous, house may be an underestimate unless they live in mansions where you are. I'll look into it further, see if I can find the state of the art dielectric these days. @Goodies | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 15:24 | comment | added | Goodies | Issue is, a high voltage is needed to hurt humans, because of our skin and body resistance, you accurately pointed that out. Higher capacity (in Farad) of the capacitor only increases the total amount of coulombs helt in the capacitor, it will not increase the discharge voltage. That voltage is determined by (equal to) the charge voltage. To allow for high charge voltages, dielectric surfaces should be thick. In a supercapacitor, this is not the case, unless you make it the size of a house. Can't tell these don't exist, but it would be quite exotic. Maybe such capacitors are used at CERN.. | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 14:44 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | The specified tech level was one where it exists, but I up-voted your frame challengey answer. @Goodies A mega coulomb is enough to do the job as I described it, I'm pretty sure. | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 14:16 | comment | added | Goodies | "A Kilofarad capacitor charged to 1000v" ok.. and I agree with the biology part.. but are you sure these capacitors actually exist ? electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/365768/… | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 12:58 | history | edited | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Addition of link, a couple of explanitory sentences.
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| Jul 24, 2021 at 12:41 | history | answered | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |