This observation has probably been made many times, but isn't it ironic that the peak muscle clamping strength straddles European and US mains frequencies?
Timothy J. Christman Test Engineer Tel 651.582.3141 Fax 651.582.7599 [email protected] Guidant Corporation 4100 Hamline Ave. N. St. Paul, MN 55112 USA www.guidant.com Opinions are mine, not my employer, I am not a lawyer, nor am I Diane Sawyer, etc. etc. -----Original Message----- From: Price, Ed [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:33 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Tetanization NOTE: Small, safe Adobe attachment included. -----Original Message----- From: NUTE,RICHARD (HP-SanDiego,ex1) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:19 PM To: Price, Ed Subject: Tetanization I was discussing tetanus with my wife. She checked some of her old textbooks and found the attached explanation of tetanus and a very good graphic. In the field of electric shock, tetanus is the technical term describing what we commonly refer to as "can't let go." Tetanus occurs in the range of 7 to 50 mA. Best regards, Rich Richard Nute Hewlett-Packard Company San Diego Note: Since I am unable to post attachments from my subscribed address, I've asked Ed Price to post this on my behalf. Please send replies to me at [email protected]. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.

