Cell Phone Stun Guns

Taser Cell Phone - Photo: Wikimedia

The Pretender is a 950,000-volt cell phone looking stun gun. It looks just like a camera cell phone but offers discreet protection to the person carrying it.

You have an edge over your attacker because of its simple appearance. And also, the power punching stun gun has a small 12 LED flashlight for added safety.

With 950,000 volts, a cell phone stun gun is one of the highest voltage guns on the market. It is also the most realistic looking cell phone stun gun available, giving you an edge over your attacker if you need to defend yourself with it.

In fact, just test firing this powerful cell phone stun gun may be enough to ward off any would-be attackers. A bright electric current crackles across the top of the cell phone stun gun and it creates an intimidating electrical sound that would scare off anyone with any sort of sense. If the sights and sounds don’t scare them away, then the jolt of 950,000 volts definitely will.

In place are safety measures that prevent an accidental discharge. The safety switch must be in the on position which causes the LED warning light to come on and then the trigger button needs to be pressed before the stun gun cell phone will work.

This stun gun works on 3 CR2 lithium batteries. But remember when purchasing this, it does not work as a cell phone, only as a stun gun. And this particular one will set you back about seventy dollars.

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Types of Stun Guns

Stun Gun - Photo: Flickr

There are many types of stun guns on the market today. Which one you choose depends on what you feel comfortable with and which one best suits you.

Standard stun guns are fairly simple. They are about the size of a flashlight and work on a single 9-volt battery. This type of stun gun gets its electric supply from the battery and it is distributed to the various electrical components. The standard type of stun gun has small electrodes at the end where the current is released.

Cattle prods are similar to stun guns. They use an electrical current that works off the two electrodes on the end. But the cattle prod serves a different function.

A cattle prod only causes pain, the charge not meant to disrupt the nervous system but to get the person or the animal moving. The main difference is in voltage. The voltage in a cattle prod is lower, only meaning to shock instead of stun.

Another variation is the taser gun. It still basically works the same way, but instead, the electrodes are not permanently joined to the housing. They are positioned at the end of conductive wires.

Pulling the trigger releases the electrode, shooting at a distance into the target, the wires still attached to the housing. The electrodes have small barbs, which grip on an attackers clothes. The current travels down the wire and into the attacker, stunning him the same way. The main advantage to this is that the attacker can be kept at a distance, anywhere from 15-20 feet.

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Stun Guns

Stun Gun - Photo: Wikimedia

The Stun gun is an effective weapon used to subdue a person by administering an electric shock that disrupts muscle function for a limited amount of time.

While the taser fires projectiles that administer the shock, the stun gun is a handheld weapon that causes a shock in direct contact.

Stun Guns use a temporary high voltage low current electrical charge to stun the body’s muscles and immobilize the recipient.

The recipient feels pain and is momentarily paralyzed. It is also reported that applying the stun gun to more sensitive spots on the body will cause more pain.

Tests show the most effective parts of the body to stun are the upper shoulder, below the rib cage, and the upper hip. The resulting shock causes muscles to twitch uncontrollably, like muscle spasms.

The margin of safety on the use of stun guns depends highly on the overall general health of the person receiving the shock. There is some controversy over the use of the stun guns.

The internal workings are basic and simple, based on either an oscillator, resonant circuit, and set-up transformer or diodecapicator voltage multiplier. This is what causes the continuous, direct, or alternating high-voltage discharge.

They are powered usually on one or two batteries depending on the manufacturer. The power of the output current depends on the recipient resistance, skin type, moisture, clothing, and the battery conditions.

A shock lasting about half a second will cause intense pain and muscle contractions, which startle most people. Two to three seconds will often cause the target to become dazed and drop to the ground, and over three seconds will usually completely disorientate and drop an attacker for several seconds.

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