How does a taser gun get so much power from 4 AA batteries?

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Enough to drop a grown man to the ground from just little batteries how?

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The power is quite high for a fraction of a second but the average power is quite low.

What is done is the energy is stored in a capacitor or a coil and then discharged quickly with a transformer that increases the voltage.

The function is not that it delivers a lot of energy to the target. The idea is the electric pulses make the muscles of the target all contract at the same time. Your muscles are electrically controlled by your nerve, so the tase overwhelm any control you have and make all muscles contract at the same time so you can’t control them at all.

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