On 7 Feb 2011 at 0:53, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Indeed. After making sure i'm well insulated, I
like to brush the
terminals of the circuit I'm working with the a knuckle, to make sure
it's de-energized. My fingers are very unlikely to fail at telling me
if there's some voltage there...
That's not even in the "weird" ballpark. I knew a fellow once who
could estimate the voltage with a fair degree of accuracy across the
terminals of a used 9V PP3 "transistor radio" battery by licking the
terminals.
I wonder whatever happened to him.
--Chuck