Enough to drop a grown man to the ground from just little batteries how?
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It’s not very powerful, it’s simply very high voltage at very low current.
Think of something like a pulley or pry-bar. Using mechanical advantage, you can move very large objects with relatively little force. But it comes at the cost of moving it a long distance.
A step-up voltage converter is a lot like a mechanical lever in the sense that it can do something like take the four batteries at 1.5 volts at 4 amp total, then converts it to like 45,000 volts with a corresponding drop in amperage down to 1/10,000th of an amp.
The high voltage is enough to mess with our muscle function, but doesn’t really care about how much electricity is flowing.
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