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How do police tasers work?
I've heard of people dying after being tasered. What happens to them?
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The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductive wire as they are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges similar to some air gun or paintball marker propellants. The two wires penetrate your clothing and deliver a high voltage, low current shock of sufficient strength to basically paralyze you momentarily, sort of like a static discharge, but a bit more potent. The internal circuits of most electroshock weapons are fairly simple. One way is based on a battery operated oscillator and a step-up transformer that generates a continuous alternating high-voltage discharge The output voltages are claimed to be in the range of 50 kV up to 1000 kV, with the most common being in the 200 to 300 kV range. However, the current is very low, so it is not supposed to kill you. But as you can see from the video, if you have a heart problem, it just might induce a heart attack, and it apparently has in some cases.
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