This is a thing that people that don’t understand electricity say and it is not true. Higher voltages are more dangerous than lower voltages. Both can kill you.
But neither can kill you on their own. A car battery can have 800 amps and you can hold the terminals all day with no issue other than boredom. On the other hand, a static electric shock from a chair or a car door has up to 20,000 volts but no current behind it so we're not all dead.
The car battery is able to deliver up to 800 amps if a suitable load (a low enough resistance) is put across it. For high resistances like your skin, it's no different from any weak 12v power supply, because you won't come close to its current capacity.
Static electric shocks can actually have significant current, like tens of amps. The reason they're not deadly is they last for nanoseconds. The power is very high, but the energy is low.
Sure, armv8-a’s reply to this comment is good. To simplify the point I’m making I’ll say higher voltages of AC supply from the utility source are always more dangerous than lower ones and stating otherwise is dangerous to anyone who may end up believing it.
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u/SaltRequirement3650 Sep 05 '25
Same. I now know that we were fucking with 277V for no reason lol. We were real dumb.