A Shocking Controller For The Xbox

An anonymous reader writes "This is freakin' awesome - Kevin Rose from TechTV has built a 20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller. Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain. Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Painstation.

Re:20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller

[PurpleFloyd]

It's actually about 250 mA (1 amp=1000 mA) that will kill you reliably. The progression goes as follows, roughly speaking (obviously, it's somewhat different for everyone):

• 5-10 mA: possible to feel a tingling sensation
• 10-25 mA: painful sensation
• 80-100 mA: local muscles contract or spasm uncontrollably. This makes it nearly impossible to let go of the power line; this is where things start to get life-threatening
• 220-280 mA: heart goes into fibrillation, causing heart attack

Voltage is of course unimportant, except insofar as a certain voltage is required to "pull" the current across your body's resistance.

got hit by 2k volts once, not sure the amps.

[enigmatichmachine]

about a month ago my roomate came home with 250 9 volt batteries he had gotten free from work becase they only had 8 volts or so in them.. so, of course we strung them end to end and were making little streeks of lightning. it made little balls of plasma on a glass of water, if you put on cable in the water, and the other just above it. fun stuff. Long story short i got a little too close to both contacts, got blown acros the room, as i had an aluminum splinter in my hand, it jumped into my hand, burning me badly there, and then out my wrist on the opposite hand. flew across the room swearing at teh top of my lungs, and then stomped the sht out of the abomination that was 2k volts of batteries. SO I ask you, how many amps would i have been hit by there? I know it was 2k volts, Because we had a volt tester present, but i have no idea the amperage. anyone?