![]() If the level of amps is high enough, it can do some serious damage to your body tissues. It can pass through your skin into your blood vessels. In fact, its voltage will be high enough to overcome your skin’s resistance. Has anyone ever told you not to touch a live wire of a downed power line? That is because its voltage is very strong. This lets more current flow through your skin. When the voltage of a current goes up, your skin’s resistance goes down. ![]() We can say that your skin resists the flow of electrons. But they have a hard time passing through your skin. Electric currents travel well through your blood. The volts measure that electricity’s strength.ĭid you know that your body uses electricity, too? Your muscles, lungs, and heart all need electricity so they can work properly. So the amps measure the amount of electricity in a current. The amps would be like the volume of water. Imagine that an electric current is a water pipe. Have you ever watched water flowing through a pipe? Sometimes it can flow quickly. The amount of energy in each unit of electrical charge is called voltage. An electric current is the flow of negatively charged electrons past a given place over a period of time. What are volts and amps? Amps (A) are the unit we use to measure electric current. There’s an old saying: "It's not the volts that kills you, it's the amps." That’s true in a way. Do Volts or Amps Kill You? Voltage, Current and Resistance (2014) by RimstarOrg (5:15 min.).
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