How do you reduce battery voltage?

Boom! The classic potato gun harnesses the combustion of flammable vapor.
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According to Wikipedia, .005 amps is the most current a human can take without danger to themselves. Like I said, tazers run at around .002 amps. Just remember, volts don't kill, amps do. If you're running anything that creates more than .005 amps, it's dangerous.
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it takes .3 amps to kill you.
"physics, gravity, and law enforcement are the only things that prevent me from operating at my full potential" - not sure, but i like the quote

you know you are not an engineer if you have to remind yourself "left loosy righty tighty"
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