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Originally Posted by Bassnut
I got belted by 10kv DC, drew an arc 1 foot long and things got very strange very quickly. My arms thrashed around randomly totally out of control and when it all stopped I had no idea where I was or what I was doing there for a good 10mins. DC is far more dangerous as AC arcing tends to be self extinguishing. Be very careful. On the other hand, you can do some mad shiet with high voltage high amp DC. I made an electromagnetic gun with stored 1kv DC at 1kA (for milliseconds), shot bolts through walls. Also, feeding 10kv DC at some 5kA (with large stacked aluminium plate capacitors, easy to make) into a coil (very thick copper welding cable), you can create plasma balls. The coil instantly vaporises, but metallic stuff you put in the coil transforms in very interesting ways.
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1kV at 1kA??? even in bursts is a lot of power. 1MW to be precise
Nice transient Power station you set up there Bassnut