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Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Ouch Dave.

Fortunately most of that HV stuff is low current or most of us would be gone by now

Been hit by the high current stuff a few times (PSU's, telecom switching systems, Radar stuff). One of the worst was a 50VDC system. I was working with my arm between two close vertical racks with a cro probe. The system was ancient, with exposed conductors all over both sides of the racks. The back of my hand brushed something live and it bit, my reaction was to jolt my hand forward into the rack in front of it. Got bit again. The reaction then was to jolt back in the reverse direction, ouch again, and so on, and so on. It went on like that for a few cycles before I was able to pull my arm free of it.

It was the same bastard radar that bit me with the 850V pulses. I also managed to get a 10KW RF burn on my hand off the bugger one day, and numerous reading on my radiation badge over the many years I worked on it- It had a huge klystron as it's output amplifier.

Good times, Jeff.

Electricity is fun. I enjoy playing with it and even like the occasional shock. I still want to build another Van de Graaff generator. Tesla coil would be fun as well.