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Electricity, Electromagnetism, Bioelectric fields, Need realism
comprex:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on June 06, 2011, 05:20:08 AM ---it doesn't state but that would make since i guess.
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For realism's sake you really want both poles of your character's internal battery to make contact with the target, especially if you wish to pass large, killing or disabling currents through. Ground return paths have quite large resistances and a lot* of parasitic capacitance as well.
*on the order of .75F
Nickeris86:
When she whacked things with her weapon it wasn't eminently life threatening, but left a nasty burn, she had to whack the monster a lot and had help from her compatriot as well.
comprex:
That's a pretty narrow window for a writer to dance around in.
The plot seems to me caught between the pedantic part of the audience that screams "if her weapon is only as good as a taser with one wire removed, how can it leave burns?" and the other, squee-starved part of the audience that's yelling "Why do I want to read about a character that can't even leave a -permanent- dueling scar, let alone kill something?"
Does that make sense?
Electric MacButters:
I don't know enough biology to know if its possible, but from an electrical standpoint it would take less energy to build a killing blow if the hero had two seperate organs that held potential, one building negative potental while the other builds positive. If each organ was 'wired' to only one hand then they would return to neutral every time one of these people touched their hands together (or touched both hands to something with low enough resistance to serve as a conductor.) This would have the benifit of opening up certain culteral norms that could develop in response like:
Everyone shakes hands right to left so as to ground each other out.
Whenever one of these people is defeated, the victor cuts off one of the loser's hands so he can no longer arc.
It is considered polite fo a guest to bring his/her hands together (think Taoism/Buddism) before entering a dwelling as a demonstration that the person is grounded.
There is a thriving glove market that includes 'secret' conductive plates that don't match across the gloves so a person can arc through their gloves or that look like flesh so an assassin can put his/her hands together and still maintain a charge.
comprex:
--- Quote from: Electric MacButters on June 06, 2011, 07:16:21 PM ---I don't know enough biology to know if its possible, but from an electrical standpoint it would take less energy to build a killing blow if the hero had two seperate organs that held potential, one building negative potental while the other builds positive.
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There is no such thing as 'just negative' and 'just positive'. Something is at a negative potential only in reference to some other potential. Potential is just that: the potential to accomplish work by transferring charge from one place to another. One always has to specify a "from" and a "to", as in "negative with respect to" and "positive with respect to".
Put another way: every battery, every fuel cell has to have *two* terminals.
Quantus had a pretty good explanation above of having multiple organs that can be biochemically charged in parallel
+ -||- -
+ -||- -
and then discharged in series ++ -||-||- --
--- Quote --- If each organ was 'wired' to only one hand and to the other organ then they would return to neutral every time one of these people touched their hands together
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Yes. With the above correction, this would happen. It would waste the work done in creating the charges in the first place, but they would return to neutral.
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