Pota said:
I have made a gokart. ...
700amp and 180volt.
..... How dangerous is it to sit so close to such much current rushing trough to the motor siting right behind me? ...
Deadly, if you're as crazy as me.
Seriously, that ought to be fun. There is something very special about building a machine so overpowered that you get that quiet moment of reflection before your first ride, knowing that may have built the thing that kills you. it's a rush few people get to share.
But none of that risk comes from EMI/RFI/EMF/EMP. While high EMF has a known vector for concern in small children, no causal link has ever been found. there is no vector of concern for older children or adults.
In English, that means scientists think it might be possible that small children are at risk for some bad health effects, but no case has ever been found where it actually did cause any harm. And they know it don't do shit to bigger kids or adults.
Seriously, you got RF radiation passing through you all the time. Lots of it. F'ing scary amounts of it from sources all over the place. where ever you are sitting right now, there are probably 100,000 cell phones with signals strong enough to read the data from. as long as they are on, they are transmitting in all directions, and those go right through your body. And Cellphones are a drop in the bucket. Everything is wifi enabled now days, all of that is broadcasting, and those signals go much further out than they can reliably connect with. Then you have all the blue tooth devices, and RF wireless mice, keyboards, garage door openers. All the radio channels, and all the TV channels with powerful antenna broadcasting their powerful signals all the time, right through you. Satellite radio and TV? it's being broadcast right through you from above, with multiple satellites broadcasting down on you at any given time. Weather radar, air traffic radar, national defense radar? always on, always bouncing through you, some times both directions.
And we're still just scratching the surface of electromagnetic radiation. Power lines, electric motors, microwave ovens, street lights, house wiring. it's enough to make some people wear a tinfoil hat!
But it really is safe. We as a life form evolved in an environment that's being bombarded by massive amounts of EMR all the time. The sun has been blasting away at the earth with a massive and constant stream, and sometimes epic bursts of EMR since the earth was a little dust cloud hoping to grow up into a ball of mud. And for all that, it ain't hurt no one yet.
