If I touch a +12V DC line that can supply up to 6 Amps, will I die? Or just get really hurt?

Question

What would happen if I touch a +12V DC line that can supply up to 6
Amps, will I die? Or just get really hurt?

Ive only been electrocuted once, by a throwaway camera strobe flash
capacitor.

I am standing with or without shoes on a floor, my hands have normal
moisture content.

Yes, LOL, the strobe ecap, was a definite !!ZAP!! It was like a thousand pins pulsating on my skin.

Answer 1

The ONLY way you would die is if the current went through your heart. It only take 0.7 of an amp to kill a person.

From your hands to your feet, you might feel a little tingle since it's only 12 volts.

Now the camera capacitor probably had around 300 volts on it, so yeah, ZAP!!!

Answer 2

Answer:

No you will not get hurt or shocked. The voltage required to shock you begins at about 30 volts DC and becomes very noticeable around 48 VDC depending upon the layers of skin on your hands (insulation). Some possible eye injury might be possible if the 6 amps were to arc to a screwdriver tip and blow off tiny bits of metal from the screwdriver tip or the metal surface you touched with the screwdriver.

Injury at 12 VDC might be possible on an unfused circuit to a car or truck battery where huge amounts of instantaneous amperage could be available. In this case I am suggesting that hundreds of amps (even several thousand amps) are available from a car/truck/golf cart battery for a brief period. That level of amperage can burn metal joints apart or weld them together depending upon how the arc occurs. Amperage of that magnitude can vaporize certain metals and danger can result from contact with the molten metal or flying debris from the vaporization. The heat generated can cause serious burns. That is why it is always recommended that circuits be fused, or equipped with circuit breakers of the appropriate size.

Answer 3

If the source from battery, no, it's safe enough to touch even it come from truck's battery with 120 Amps. Unless you shock by static electricity. But if it comes from electronic power supply, some electronic design will pass 110V or 220V line, it depends on the circuit used.

In your case, capacitor you have touched isn't 12 V. Flash tube will firing with 300V or more, so the capacitor should charged with those voltages.

With those voltages, even though you use shoes, you still feel the electric shock since your shoes not a good insulator. The current will flew from your finger to your feet.

Answer 4

No, neither. It doesn't matter how much current it can deliver, Ohm's law says that a 12 volt supply can't give you a shock. A 12 volt car battery can deliver hundreds of amps but it won't give you a shock. Even if your skin is wet, your body's resistance will limit the current to a safe level.

Answer 5

12v just might give you a tingle if you're soaking wet. hazardous voltage is anything above 50 volts according to OSHA standards.

Answer 6

no not much .....u will only get a shock hezard. but i would suggest u must not touch it.