LennyFractal Wood Burning - A DIY method of making fractal art on wood using more volts than the electric chair. It has so killed over 30 people so far.
MouselemmingDon’t try this at home, folks.
And yet Amazon sells the kits with no warnings. And the safety equipment is a pair of gloves…
Danger! Danger! High voltage!!
Dem BosainWhen we touch, when we kiss.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]using more volts than the electric chair
Well…voltage isn’t really the whole story. You really need the voltage and current to multiply to a power, then apply that power for enough time for it to be dangerous. For example, typical static shocks are between 4000-35000V, but they only transmit a few millijoules of energy. By way of comparison, these are similarly sized voltages used in primary distribution (i.e., not the lines passing by your house, but the ones feeding those lines), and those can kill you instantly because they carry a shitload of energy.
Which is why fractal wood burning IS super dangerous! It requires you to work close to a live microwave (oven) transformer (or one of similar size) and the circuit it is connected to, which could very quickly pump enough energy into your body to disrupt it and kill you almost instantly.