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Can a camera flash lead to electrocution while used near a high voltage electric line?
This is a news I received recently. A person climbed up oil boogie. Above his head, 40,000 volts electrical line was passing through. As soon as he clicked the digital camera, 40,000 volt current passed through the camera flash light to his camera and then from his camera to his fingers and then from his fingers to his body. All this happened within fraction of minutes. Next moment he was thrown from the top. His body was half burned on the spot. Is this possible?
Getting too close to a 40kV transmission line was most likely the cause of the flash over. The presence of the camera is merely coincidence. It is very unlikely that the camera flash precipitated the event, although the energy released by the flash may have played a small part by "seeding" the spark.
Rather than a "fraction of minutes" this would have been a very small fraction of a second. The real lesson to learn here is, don't climb towers carrying high voltage cables, with or without a camera.
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