Comment on Electric eel
deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoThere’s no given amperage coming out of the wall. It’s a product of V=IR. Given a constant resistance for the person’s body, three times the voltage does means three times the current.
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 6 months ago
An eel can only generate so much power, so essentially the voltage will drop so that the power will be lower.
600V at 0,01A will just turn to, say, 100V at 0,06A if the resistance between two points will be 1667 Ohm.
In that sense, amperage is super important. We should always consider capabilities of the power source, this is big part of electrical grid engineering.