Talk:Electric fish/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Conflating voltage and amplitude

This was written in the first section:

"The amplitude of the signal can range from 10 to 500 volts with a current of up to 1 ampere."

Voltage and amplitude are not the same thing. Voltage is electric potential; amplitude is the height of the wave of AC current. Calling an electric discharge a "signal" conflates it with a radio transmission.

71.241.69.163 (talk) 07:13, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Can they kill?

Can electric fish kill? --CyclePat 01:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, if the current goes across your heart and into the ground through your body. 1 amp is ten times the current needed to kill (100 mA).

71.241.69.163 (talk) 07:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Redlinks

There are way too many redlinks in this page. Someone should do something about it.

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Where is the Table?

Headers there, but nothing else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 (talk) 22:10, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

The table was collapsed, but in a way that rendered the control to reveal it unclear. 72.235.213.232 (talk) 00:37, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Rewrite needed

This is quite an important (and historic) topic, but the current article doesn't make it clear how the electric capability is distributed, nor in what combinations of function it exists. We have four groups to consider:

Mormyrids and Gymnotiformes (actively electrolocating), including the Electric eel (both electric and actively electrolocating)
Electric rays (electric, and passively electrolocating)
Electric catfish (electric, and passively electrolocating)
Stargazers (electric, not electrolocating)

I suggest we organize the article around these four groups; and we need to cover active and passive electrolocation (the latter only as far as needed to explain what the electric rays and catfish are doing), as well as the electric bit that's already there. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)