Mounties Electrocute Airline Passenger

It's official! Airline pax are cattle suitable for "prodding" with
high-voltage. :-)

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:23:53 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:36:07 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:


Mace? Wrestle him to the floor? A net? Something with less lethal
potential than 100,000 volts?

50,000 Volts, 18 Watts and 133 MilliAmps


Where did you get that information?


From their website.

http://www.taser.org/m18l.html

second paragraph.


That web site is not the Taser company's web site; it's some
retailer's.


Here are the manufacturer's specifications for their products:
http://www2.taser.com/research/scien...rinciples.aspx

TASER® X26

The TASER X26 is programmed to deliver a very short electrical
pulse of approximately 100 microseconds' duration with about 100
microcoulombs of charge at 19 pulses per second for 5 seconds[2].
The voltage across the body is about 1,200 volts during the shock.

From the TASER X26 only 1,200 V peak, 400 V average over the
duration of the pulse, enter the body, or 0.76 V average
(one-second baseline).


ADVANCED TASER® M26

The ADVANCED TASER M26 has an average (one second baseline)
voltage of 1.3 V, with a peak loaded voltage of 5,000 V, 1,500 V
average over duration of pulse.


There they say:

To say that 50,000 V is delivered to a person is sensationalistic
and very misleading.

Even though both the ADVANCED TASER M26 and the TASER X26 have
50,000 peak open circuit voltage, to jump the air gap, neither
TASER device delivers 50,000 V to a person's body.

Because of the high voltage generated, the darts from the TASER
device do not have to penetrate or even touch the skin. The high
voltage allows the TASER device electrical output to jump through
up to 2 inches of air or clothing to complete the circuit with the
target’s body.


Perhaps someone can explain to me how 50,000 volts is used to jump the
gap to the person's body, but 50,000 volts is not delivered to the
person. This sounds like double-speak to me.

Are Tasers routinely calibrated and certified by an independent
testing laboratory as vehicle speed radar/lidar are? If not, why not?