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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:44 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 2, 2011 at 14:32 | comment | added | Vian Esterhuizen | I once took apart disposable camera after removing the film just to mess around. As soon as it was open, I accidentally touched a circuit near the flash and my right arm was instantly numb. I was lucky. | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 20:41 | comment | added | user2719 | To put the danger into some perspective: a cardiac defibrillator uses the same circuitry as a xenon photoflash -- same high-voltage generator, same capacitors, same regulating circuits (well, except that they're designed to fail safe) -- except that you take the place of the flash tube in the circuit (and the method of initiating the discharge is different). While the pop-up may not have 400 joules ready and waiting (as, say, a studio strobe easily might) it can trigger an arrhythmia or a fibrillation. | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 17:27 | history | answered | Alan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |