Re: Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)

2001-09-14 Thread Andrew Carson
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

RE: Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)

2001-09-14 Thread Rich Nute
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 - Hi Robert: The skin resistivity and dielectric

RE: Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)

2001-09-14 Thread Georgerian, Richard
Robert, Try this web site: http://speech.llnl.gov/thesis/index.htm It's a good starting point regarding the skin. Richard Georgerian Technical Committee 8 Product Safety (TC-8), Vice-chair Colorado Product Safety Technical Committee (CPSTC), Chair Compliance Engineer Carrier Access

RE: Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)

2001-09-14 Thread Dan Teninty
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