Stun gun question

teganburns

I watched a video on youtube of people at a party /w a stun gun, and the person holding the gun made a comment about how the two people he was going to tase had to not be touching in order for it to go to all the other people in the group. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4T1uMiOH5Y)

Later I was talking with my friend and we came across the topic of if that was necessary? I figure that would give a better holding voltage, but if one person got tased and was holding hands with mutiple people wouldnt everyone else get tased too?

Btw no plans on doing this at all ever, just a question that got me thinking and confused me a bit about the flow of electrons.

kwinn

The taser has 2 probes that make contact with the victim, and the current travels through the body between those contacts. Someone touching the victim would not have any current flowing through them.

JasonDorie

The best way for it to affect multiple people is to have a group holding hands in a line. The person at each end touches a single electrode on the stun gun. I used to make miniature shock devices when I was in high school, and a group of friends of mine used to do this occasionally for fun.

skylight

Not sure about the taser but tried using one of those voltsense/continuity probes with 14 people and the led still lit, Only a 9 volt battery inside.

Mark_T

LOL if a taser didn't have two electrodes there would be two victims, one of them holding the thing! Scenarios involving
homemade stungun and a Darwin Award suggest themselves.

Some of the early experiments into the nature of electricity had long lines of people holding hands and a leyden jar,
perhaps the steampunk equivalent of the taser.