• Question: How many bolts of lighting are in a electric plug for a t.v

    Asked by Jessica109 to Kevin on 5 Mar 2019.
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      Kevin OBrien answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Hopefully, none.
      Lightning is typical at 10s of thousands of volts. TVs run on 230 volts.

      230 volts is still very uncomfortable, and can kill.

      In a previous job, I worked on implanted defibrillators that could delivery ~1800 volts to stop someone’s heart from fibrillating (quivering, without effectively pumping blood). People who had experience a shocked from it compared it to bring kicked in the chest by a horse. However, it is life saving technology, which allowed many people to live a normal life.
      In most cases, users will be unconscious due to the lack of blood pressure when the shock is delivered.

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