How does a stun gun work?
In this post I want to talk about how a stun gun works, and I don't mean what button to push to do what, I mean in terms of the electronic circuits inside that produce the stun function. It might be worth noting what I mean by stun gun, since there are SO many words used to describe a stun gun and there are many parties out there trying to push their own naming convention. This article discusses the origins of the confusion if you're interested, but I'll just clarify that what I mean by stun gun is any device meant to produce pain or incapacitation of a person using electric energy. That definition applies to pretty much any word you might have heard being used for such a device, like stun gun, TASER, tazer, energy weapon, electroshock weapon etc. I've seen several good posts talking about how to use a stun gun, so that's not going to be the topic today. In order to understand how to pick a good stun gun though, it's very helpful to understand how it actually w...