One does wonder what evil experiments you have planned for the weekend !

>From two sources,

Wet Skin, hand to hand, ~1000ohm
Dry Skin, hand to hand, ~100,000ohm.

approx. values for male adults.

Dan Teninty wrote:

> Robert,
>
> The best I can do is point you in the direction of IEC 479-1 which is by now
> IEC 600479. The title is "Effects of current passing through the human
> body". The electrical model for the human body is derived from this
> information. There is a good description of this in Annex A of ANSI/ISA
> S82.01-1994 which is harmonized, more or less identical to, UL 3111.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Daniel E. Teninty, P.E.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Robert Macy
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)
>
> Sorry to post here but am running into a brick wall at trying to find out
> something as simple as the resistivity and dielectric constant for skin!
>
> Does anybody have a source?  Need quick, please.
>
>                        - Robert -
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