At least if you went through a puddle in this unit it wouldn't leak water in through the door seams......
Guess the car and year.
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Dave91TM
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Maybe not but where's the fun if it doesn't leak?
Might be the last thing you would want though with a 400 volt electrical system.....
Dave91TM
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Well then would you just describe the driving experience as "Electrifying" ?
Enough to make your hair stand on end ........
maybe.... depends more on amps....(but you know electricity better than I do). Ever grab a spark plug wire? As much as 40,000 volts in a high performance vehicle....
Ha . That would be right up there with putting your tongue on a metal pole at -30 ........
Been there done that..... once in grade school.... life lesson... lol.
For when you need to outrun that police helicopter......
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It's not the voltage. It's the current. A static shock can be almost that much, but doesn't have that much current. It has the potential.
(An electrical joke)
Agree.... Which is what I said. Amperes are the unit of measurement for current...It's not the voltage. It's the current. A static shock can be almost that much, but doesn't have that much current. It has the potential.
Tell that to a lighting bolt.....It's not the voltage. It's the current. A static shock can be almost that much, but doesn't have that much current. It has the potential.
30,000 or so Amps (current)
Or as much as a couple hundred thousand under the right conditions. This is a bit more than it takes to kill . Most people don't realize how little current it takes to kill . Take a 100 watt light bulb for example, at 120 volts it draws about .8 amps or 800 milliamps . If you get as little as 50 milliamps flowing across your chest which can happen simply by touching a live conductor with your right hand for example and your left hand is touching something grounded it can stop your heart or throw it out of rhythm. So yes you could die putting up your Christmas lights . Happy New Year ........maybe , lol.
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A LOT higher potential. We are talking miles.
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Sorry, I miss understood.
It's the difference of potential that counts . As for Lightning it actually IS a static charge/dischsrge . Think of a cloud as just a big balloon , lol.
Dave91TM
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All this discussion is very educational professors. My question is what would happen if you touched a live conductor with your left hand and grounded your right hand, would your heart go backwards?
1958 Ford Nucleon.
I wonder what would happen in a vehicle accident. Thousands/millions of Three Mile Islands in the world
Copy and pasted article below.
the 1958 Ford Nucleon was supposed to be a nuclear-powered car, which quite surprisingly, is just one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and 60s. That’s right, there would have been no internal-combustion engine, but instead a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle, based on the assumption that this would one day be possible by reducing its size.
The Ford Nucleon would have been equipped with a steam engine powered by uranium fission, similar to those found in nuclear submarines. You can actually view a mock-up of the car in-person at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Nuclear technology was relatively new at the time, and it was thought that nuclear fission technology could eventually be made compact and affordable enough to become a primary energy source in the US. There would be numerous full service recharging stations nationwide and it would take around 5000-miles before the reactor would need to be exchanged for a new one.
I wonder what would happen in a vehicle accident. Thousands/millions of Three Mile Islands in the world
Copy and pasted article below.
the 1958 Ford Nucleon was supposed to be a nuclear-powered car, which quite surprisingly, is just one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and 60s. That’s right, there would have been no internal-combustion engine, but instead a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle, based on the assumption that this would one day be possible by reducing its size.
The Ford Nucleon would have been equipped with a steam engine powered by uranium fission, similar to those found in nuclear submarines. You can actually view a mock-up of the car in-person at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Nuclear technology was relatively new at the time, and it was thought that nuclear fission technology could eventually be made compact and affordable enough to become a primary energy source in the US. There would be numerous full service recharging stations nationwide and it would take around 5000-miles before the reactor would need to be exchanged for a new one.