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Originally Posted by porsche4life

I can loan you guys a neon transformer if you would like to try something in the 12-15k range.....

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

G'day all,

Try 850V pulses at 2GHz - hell of a headache

Originally Posted by slodave

I was taking apart a broken camera one day and had been playing with it before. I guess I charged the flash, but never triggered it. I touched the capacitor. It was either 10,000 or 100,000V. I've been hit with a stun-gun as well at 75,000V, twice.

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.

OK, now you guys are talking serious stuff. Odd that this subject came up as tonight half the Formula Electric team (half = about 4 people) was nearly killed while I was helping to take the batteries out which are sort of interlinked by these dam ridges on their sides which makes them get wedged into every position but the one they are supposed to be in. We had to lift the whole battery pack as a whole therefore and almost shorted it to the tube frame. I was stading on the million pound steel table and holding on to/ leaning on the steel tube frame. I was holding one side of the battery pack with nylon straps going beneath each row of brick-like batteries. My end came up, the other guy did not get his end high enough and the whole thing tilted. It was scary for a minute there. A case of "hold on" and not being able to do anything else. Luckily they are only about 160 pounds I think. Not all that hard to hold.

The motors I think are a total of 100hp or more. And I heard 700 amps being discussed. Not sure what the voltage is but there must be about 24 bricks, and I do not know how many cells are in each brick.