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As well as those who think they are experienced. After quite a bit of thinking that, I wound up connected across a 4kv, 1 amp nominal DC supply till my lab assistent could switch it off. This took about 6 months to stop hurting - internal burns, hand to hand. Yeah, it should have killed me (like so many other things have tried) but evidently I'm just that guy who lives to tell the tale so you don't find out the hard way.

While this is lower voltage and higher current than we (usually, ignoring stored energy in capacitors) deal with - you KNOW this left a mark. Don't be this guy:

We have a pretty robust sense of humor here - but HV/HP does not. A word to the wise.