I'm by no means an expert on physiological effects of DC, AC and pulses, but have worked with and around the mix, and experienced various 'kinds' of shocks. Heard the caveats and saw a few cases where they weren't heeded.

As you are doubtless aware (would I disbelieve a sig? ;-) Edison was in deep shit re the ^&*#$ wiresize to get his DC sent all over the place, and T. 'solved' that cold / but with er side effects.. Hence the pre Waggener-Edstrom spin about electrocuting elephants and such. (Did we really think those Wag-Ed droids were smart enough to invent spin? And they majored in Marketing!?)

Anyway, PBS, BBC have shown various documentaries over here re the big brouhaha, the difficulties of Tesla (who worked briefly with Edison.. couldn't at all cotton to The Great One's tendency to assimilate and exterminate, so left.)

Great soap opera 'bout the corporate mindset and greed generally. Tesla was fun - wish I could have seen that Colorado lab making lightning all around the building. Makes our puny 500 KV (DC) C-W generator pretty tame.


Ashton