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Old 2010-09-25, 00:49   Link #2100
mechalord
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Originally Posted by Spectacular_Insanity View Post
Well, actually not true. Higher voltages would affect the damage you took, minus what your body's natural electrical resistance is. Most humans have a 1100 wet skin Ohm resistance. It's higher if your skin is dry, at around 495,000 Ohm. Internal body resistance is MUCH lower, at around only 85-575 Ohm. Higher resistance is better.

It's not directly voltage that kills someone, it's CURRENT. It only takes .015 amps across the heart to kill someone. The formula for calculating current (amps) is thus:
Voltage/Ohms = Amperes

If anything, Erza could have survived because her metal body armor channeled the bulk of the electrical charges away from her body's internals, much like a car protects you from lightning (assuming you're INSIDE it) by routing the electricity through the steel chassis.

So taking into account both her dry state and the fact that she was wearing a ton of metal body armor, she could have easily survived something like 10,000,000 Volts (a lightning strike). If she hadn't had armor she would have been fried, but I'm sure that her armor helped quite a bit.

Okay... even if Erza's armor acted as a faraday cage, others took out multiples as well, maybe not 200 but in the dozens. Damage cap seems more plausible.
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