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<blockquote data-quote="yamafitter" data-source="post: 891707" data-attributes="member: 15141"><p>The issue here is referred to as step voltage. If there is enough potentential voltage between your one foot compared to the other to draw a current through your body and if approximately 30 milliamps is applied through the heart muscles you are in for a bad day. Standing on metal grating is actually better then standing on dirt since dirt is highly resistive therefore there is more of a voltage drop from one contact point to the other. In a lightening strike your body is a less resistive path and you get fried. Standing on metal, the metal is a better electrical path and you may be OK.</p><p></p><p>When we worked in the 500 Kilovolt switchyards we used to stand on a metal grate and then attach a ground lead to the device we would be working on. This put our bodies at the same voltage level as the equipment we were working on to reduce the possibility of electrical contact.</p><p></p><p>It is also safer to be in a cage than out in the open on a bike during an electrical storm since lighting will likely travel through the metal components of the car bypassing the occupants whereas on a bike, you are part of the electrical circuit going to ground.</p><p></p><p>Not good for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yamafitter, post: 891707, member: 15141"] The issue here is referred to as step voltage. If there is enough potentential voltage between your one foot compared to the other to draw a current through your body and if approximately 30 milliamps is applied through the heart muscles you are in for a bad day. Standing on metal grating is actually better then standing on dirt since dirt is highly resistive therefore there is more of a voltage drop from one contact point to the other. In a lightening strike your body is a less resistive path and you get fried. Standing on metal, the metal is a better electrical path and you may be OK. When we worked in the 500 Kilovolt switchyards we used to stand on a metal grate and then attach a ground lead to the device we would be working on. This put our bodies at the same voltage level as the equipment we were working on to reduce the possibility of electrical contact. It is also safer to be in a cage than out in the open on a bike during an electrical storm since lighting will likely travel through the metal components of the car bypassing the occupants whereas on a bike, you are part of the electrical circuit going to ground. Not good for you. [/QUOTE]
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