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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You can't get 'electrocuted' from an earphone battery, it's not nearly powerful enough. A car battery (lead-acid) could in some scenarios deliver unpleasant shocks.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Unpleasant shocks are what I meant. English is my second language so sometimes I get terms wrong. But yeah, I wouldn't want to have an electronic device close to my ears when I'm getting drenched.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Don't worry that wouldn't happen with such a small battery. You would not feel anything at all.
    You can wet your fingers and touch a 9V alkaline as an experiment, or touch that to your tongue - this has more than twice the voltage of the cell typically used in earphones

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    You can’t get ‘electrocuted’ from an earphone battery, it’s not nearly powerful enough.

    Well now, just to be contrary, I want to design a circuit that could deliver a deadly shock even with such a small battery.

    I'm going to need a research lab, a few dozen live pigs, an assistant to do the soldering for me, and probably a lot of capacitors ... but I think it could be done. The key, I think, will be finding just the right combination of amperage, voltage, and frequency to best disrupt the rhythm of the heart.

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