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Originally posted by John Henry
What kills you is not 'amps' or 'volts' or 'hertz', but something called 'skin depth'. This is a measure of how far one 'wave' from the mains can penetrate into you, because if the current is only going into you, not through, it will stop after one wave and 'flail' inside you like an untethered bit of string. Basically if it gets to your heart, you're fucked, but how far it gets depends on current, voltage, frequency and your resistance.
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I don't think skin depth really comes into play in this case. Skin depth is important in high frequency RF applications and represents the depth at which the current density of the signal reaches 1/e of its value.
Skin Depth = 1/(pi*freq*magnetic permeability*conductivity)^1/2