How Do Stun Guns Work?

A You will not be affected even if you are holding your attacker with another hand or he is holding you! The extreme shock does not pass between people.

One to two seconds can cause muscle spasms and a dazed mental state. Over three seconds can cause loss of balance and muscle control, mental confusion and disorientation. Realize that 3 seconds is quite a long time when in a physical struggle.

Every person is different and will react differently to the effects of a stun gun. What may put one person down in 3 seconds could take 5 seconds on another person. You must be prepared to hold it on the person for as long as (forcefully) possible or necessary.

You will not get shocked if your attacker is touching you. Even if you or the attacker are wet or standing in water, you will not get shocked.

The concerted thought that when you aim and fire your stun gun at an approaching menacing assailant; your non-lethal self defense weapon is for incapacitating the assailant without causing permanent damage.

By law; stun guns fall in the category of non-lethal weaponry. Non-lethal weapons or less-lethal weapons, less-than-lethal weapons, non-deadly weapons, compliance weapons, or pain-inducing weapons are weapons intended to be less likely to kill a living target than are conventional weapons. It must be noted that by no means are these weapons infallible, they can save lives in certain situations.

Our bodies are a marvelously designed electrical system and it all starts in the brain. An electrical signal communicates with nerve cells which in turn release a neurotransmitter, a communication chemical, to the muscle cells. Your muscles in turn are told to contract or expand in just the right way to perform a task. Sensitive nerve cells in your hand send an electrical message to your brain, telling you to squeeze the trigger on the stun gun. Signals are exchanged between the brain and your hand telling you that you are in eminent danger and how you can operate the stun gun to protect your life. This is a very simplistic analogy of a complex set of circumstances that can be engaged in a very short period of time.

Advantages of a stun gun: Continuous charges. Portability. Simple to use.

Disadvantages of a stun gun: You must be within striking distance of the attacker.

Conventional stun guns have a fairly simple design. They are about the size of a flashlight, and they work on ordinary 9-volt batteries.

The batteries supply electricity to a circuit consisting of various electrical components. The circuitry includes multiple transformers, components that boost the voltage in the circuit, typically to between 20,000 and 150,000 volts, and reduce the amperage. It also includes an oscillator, a component that fluctuates current to produce a specific pulse pattern of electricity. This current charges a capacitor. The capacitor builds up a charge, and releases it to the electrodes, the "business end" of the circuit.

The electrodes are simply two plates of conducting metal positioned in the circuit with a gap between them. Since the electrodes are positioned along the circuit, they have a high voltage difference between them. If you fill the gap between the two plates, with a conductor (say, the attacker's body), the electrical pulses will try to move from one electrode the other, dumping electricity into the attacker's nervous system.

Stun guns come in varying strengths of voltage. Voltage alone, no matter how high will not kill or permanently harm someone. Simply put, the higher the voltage, the less time you need to stay in contact with someone, and the longer they will be incapacitated. You do need to be close enough to touch the attacker with the stun gun.

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How Do Stun Guns Work?

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