Taking apart my PS3 controller... should I?

[CaseyDDR]

NJ5 said:

Asmo said:

NJ5 said:

Well make sure you remove the battery and don't cut yourself while doing it, as even a small battery can kill you if it there's an electrical path to your heart (for example a cut on your finger touching a metal contact... worse even if it's on two fingers on opposite hands).

 

It's a 3.7 V battery, it wouldn't even tickle him.

Wrong. A 3.7 V battery can generate enough current to kill you, IF the current flows through your blood (which is basically water thus highly conductive).

If it flows through the skin it's no problem of course.

 

Lipo batteries are NOT going to kill you through a cut. There are so many variables that would have to happen just for the slightest .00000001% possibility. How many batteries have you actually handled in your life that weren't AA or part of a camera? 

 

I build packs for MANY MANY applications, and not once have I ever EVER remotely even come close to shocking myself. I've had Lipo/Life packs blow on me, alkalines leak, but NEVER got a shock from anything. I've worked with NiCd, NiMh, LiPo, Alkaline, Life, etc. 

 

I take that back, stick a 9v battery on your tongue, that tickles.