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SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 days agoWouldn’t expect the bar itself to get hot; just the battery. The bar will be very low resistance and therefore only a tiny portion of the total heat will end up in it.
Now, if you stuck one terminal to one piercing and another terminal to another piercing, then you might have a bad time…
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s not enough voltage to drive current through that big of a resistance
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Just tried this out. The battery was already pretty dead, but it still raised the temperature of the wire by 9°C in like 5 seconds. If the battery had been full it would have gotten much hotter much faster.
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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You missed their point. They were suggesting connecting the battery to different nipple piercings, thinking that would cause the electricity to travel across the chest
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The person I was replying to (to my understanding) was talking about connecting it across a two nipple pericings, one on each side
I would be flabbergasted if 9v were even remotely capable of overcoming that kind of resistance
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
If you mean the bar, then even stainless of that size is going to be very low resistance - milliohms?
If you mean the body, then I believe it gets complicated. Skin resistance will be diminished by the piercings having a relatively large contact area and probably being somewhat sweat covered - I’m not sure exactly what the ‘skin’ inside the piercing tunnel is like. Certainly you can feel current from a 9V across the wet inner-body skin of your tongue.
The internal bath will be quite low resistance because the inside of the body is a sack full of salty water.
It wouldn’t be fatal, even across the chest, but it could hurt.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you touch the contacts of a nine volt battery to your bare skin you generally don’t feel anything m you might if there’s sweat, you’ll feel it on your skin, but across two breasts worth of chest like I understood them to mean in the comment I was replying to?
Thats a fuckton of resistance compared to 9v of electrical pressure