What is your body voltage? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 01:39:26 am
content: What voltage do you get when you hold one multimeter lead in each hand with it set to the lowest DC voltage setting? My high score is about 100 mv on my cheap cen-tech multimeter (with homemade leads).

author: sarepairman2
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 02:06:08 am
content: this depends on your proximity to transmitters, power of said transmitters, your body composition, your body conductivity, the input impedance of your multimeter, how you are grounded, etc

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 02:22:02 am
content: Are you using two dissimilar metals on your probes, and a conductive gel?

author: Zucca
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 10:37:34 am
content: normally 50mV.after a cold beer max peak 200mV.Now let´s try with Wodka...

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 10:46:03 am
content: about 500V with sight of a pretty woman

author: Ysjoelfir
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 02:03:31 pm
content: 500 Volts!? Wow, that is quite high and dangerous! Beware not to touch the pretty woman though or else you will end in jail because of physical injury resulting from negligence!I actually measured it, with dry handy, no lubrication gel, using my all day multimeter: 174mV while standing on a carpet, measured it from thumb to thumb.However, probing from my bellybutton to the nose I got 193mV!Maybe I should repeat that on a daily base... hmm... quite interesting

author: Sbampato12
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 07:24:36 pm
content: 180mV.... I'm thinking in use a bateriser to rise it up....

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 07:41:51 pm
content: Depends where I stick the probes.I seem to get 100mv from index to thumb, hand to hand I only get 50. Need a couple daisy chained batterisers so I can power a monkey with two fingers.Never occurred to me to experiment with this actually. I touched the ground of my psu while touching the probe on the positive (to free my other hand), and with the other hand I was touching the probe by the tip. I got 9 volts.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 08:24:40 pm
content: 2.1mV AC between my tongue and left thumb plus 140mV DC. At 53uA AC buut cant measure the DC amps as its too low.

author: Zucca
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 10:18:09 pm
content: Quote from: Red Squirrel on September 02, 2015, 07:41:51 pmThanks.

author: canibalimao
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2015, 10:31:39 pm
content: Quote from: Sbampato12 on September 02, 2015, 07:24:36 pmThis is the engineer version of "weight" tonormalpeople?

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2015, 12:56:16 am
content: Quote from: Sbampato12 on September 02, 2015, 07:24:36 pmQuote from: Ysjoelfir on September 02, 2015, 02:03:31 pmYou don't need anythng else, you're doing a fine 'job' as it is.