You've got to give me a year, make, and model, or there is no way I can give you an estimate.

Foreign or domestic would help too.

Since it's an EM. Know what the F you are doing.

LTG : )

For their sake, I hope they aren't running 220v in Canada.

As others have stated it depends on the game, and manufacturer.

Generally on the games schematic the voltages are labelled. 110v, 25 volts, and could have a 6v circuit. If the EM machine has plastic insulation on the wires that is usually 110v. Yes, you can quite the zap!

Grab ahold of one of those 50 volt coils like they used on Williams and Bally and see if that doesn't make your hair stand up.

About the lethal voltage: Here's a quick read: https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/89792-ac-and-dc-shock-comparison/

It's really about the current. A better way to phrase the question is "What voltage would produce a xxmA of current which is considered serious a health hazard?"

On a related sidenote, as a teenager I built a Tesla coil that put out 250,000 volts, but essentially had no current capability. While the voltage was enough, it couldn't supply the current to cause serious harm - I could hold a fluorescent bulb and light it dimly up in my hand. You would likely feel the 48V from a solenoid coil.

You probbaly know this but an old fashion suck off is the only way to settle a dispute once and for all.

Like those GM HEI ignitions with 50,000 volts were enough to make you jump back and crack your melon on the hood, but they wouldn't electrocute you.

It was fun though to use those to charge a condenser and then hand it to a manager or salesman that really didn't know much about cars.

Voltages are not confined to specific parts of the game. You can have any of the game's voltages including line voltage (110 or 220 volts) on the coin door, score motor, relays and solenoids. It's less common to have line voltage in the back box but I wouldn't rule it out.

Beyond line voltage, EMs typically have 25 or 50 volts for the mechanics and 6 volts for the lights. None of these are safe if you don't know what you're doing.

/Mark

In my experience the real good ones make you scream when you touch them, the medium ones give you a good zap which will test your reflexs', the little ones just give you light pulsing buzz. Good times...

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Man! I wish football season would hurry up and get here............

You say you want to settle and argue?

I keep telling my marriage counselor this but no one is listening to me.

That's because it is DC. DC is like a hammer. AC is the dangerous one because of (not the voltage or the current) the frequency. 60 Hertz is very close to the frequency that your heart beats. AC/60 Hertz can kill at very small voltages/currents. "So its the frequency that kills you" So if the frequency doesn't do it then your shock is directly proportional to how well your grounded and the water content of your body. (different people get shocked differently)

Euro current (for lack of a better word) is 220v/50 Herts. Actually safer to be hit by that. Less current more voltage safer frequency.

Williams uses 25. Bally uses 50 (43 technically).

There are times you need to test a machine with it on. For that, I use the eraser end of a pencil to hit switches and actuate relays and such. I don't know much about the currents and voltages on EMs, but I do know that I'd rather not be laying on the floor with my heart not beating with the wife and kids upstairs!

Kick each other in the junk, the man left standing wins.
You go first, then just concede you lost the argument.

Williams also used 50. I've got several.

If it's with your wife/girlfriend just say honey you're right and slowly back away!!!

You won't know until you lick it. Since this is an argument, maybe you both should lick it and see who can keep licking the longest.

I find that applies to many areas in life.

(disclaimer: don't actually lick it)

Your heart beats 60 times per SECOND???? 60 beats per MINUTE at rest is more like it!

DC will kill you quicker. Google Tesla vs Edison and the Electric Chair. But, DC doesn't travel distances as well as AC so AC won the standards battle. Despite Mr Edison's considerable influence.Plus, it's easier to get DC from AC than the reverse.

Then Mr. Edison went and made a fortune off Mr. Tesla's invention.

I guess 110 can kill you in the right circumstances, and it's better not to touch it if you can avoid it. But I've been hit with 110 more times than I can count and I'm still here.

25v will not do anything to you. 6v you might not even feel.

Ditto^^. And with AC you can run a higher voltage, which means less IR loss (e.g. use thinner wire), then step down thru a transformer to 120V. Can't do that with DC. Edison's DC would have seriously been the wrong choice!

It also helps to use vinyl / rubber coated gloves. They won't stop everything, but have turned what would have been good zaps, into "oh, guess I touched something hot".