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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Nemesis" data-source="post: 776806" data-attributes="member: 632"><p>Yeah, there would be insulation of course, but it was still dangerous for the people outside. It was sheer good luck that none of the people outside were in contact with him or the metal body on the outside. Even the typical so called insulator materials have their limitations of stopping power and 25kV is nothing to laugh about. At high voltages electricity can jump across air gaps.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe you touched some point on the output end of the inverter circuit. Even though a UPS runs on a DC battery. It still needs to convert the DC to 220V AC to drive the equipment connected to it.</p><p></p><p>I got electrocuted once while fiddling around with a 6V battery and a step down transformer connected without a diode to stop reversal. I had 100's of electric shocks in my life time, but that was the worst one yet though it was just for an instant. I had a Multimeter connected on the output end, It showed 999V before it got fried. That's why they put a diode on the secondary coil output going to the battery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Nemesis, post: 776806, member: 632"] Yeah, there would be insulation of course, but it was still dangerous for the people outside. It was sheer good luck that none of the people outside were in contact with him or the metal body on the outside. Even the typical so called insulator materials have their limitations of stopping power and 25kV is nothing to laugh about. At high voltages electricity can jump across air gaps. Maybe you touched some point on the output end of the inverter circuit. Even though a UPS runs on a DC battery. It still needs to convert the DC to 220V AC to drive the equipment connected to it. I got electrocuted once while fiddling around with a 6V battery and a step down transformer connected without a diode to stop reversal. I had 100's of electric shocks in my life time, but that was the worst one yet though it was just for an instant. I had a Multimeter connected on the output end, It showed 999V before it got fried. That's why they put a diode on the secondary coil output going to the battery. [/QUOTE]
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