And yes High voltage will kill you, very easily under the wrong conditions.A flyback, usually anywhere from 5-60kv, at around 1-3ma will not cause your death, although it will result in a painful RF burn (burns the tissue under your skin). A car ignition coil is even safer than a flyback, with anywhere from 6-40kv output, but at less than 1ma. This is prolly the safest for of high voltage. a oil burner ignition transformer (OBIT for short) usually have 5-20ma, and is enough to kill you if you get it to travel across your heart. Neon sign transformers (NST for short) are higher voltage than a OBIT, somewhere from 2-15kv, and anywhere from 20-120ma. NST's are self current limiting, so if it says 30ma, it wont be over say 35ma ever. NST's will kill you even easier. Now if you are truly into high voltage, a pole transformer (you know those big ones that hang on the powerlines? Yep, people use those for HV experiments!) can be rated anywhere from 7500-9000V output. It may not seem like much, BUT its the current that counts here, a pole transformer has the capabilities to output OVER 2A into a dead short. Touch one of these anywhere, and your dead, no doubt! Theres only 1 case i have heard of someone surviving a shock from one of these, and even in that case he was thrown across the room, and had been passed out for over 5 hours. Luckily he had a friend that turned of the transformer before it fried his friend. The guy went to hospital and had 3rd degree burns, and a fractured bone somewhere. One statement i hear around is that its not the high voltage that kills you, its when it throws you across the room, that you land on something else that kills you, which is most often the case with electricians. Microwave oven transformers are only rated for 2000-4000V output, but can also have more than 2A output. Just me comparing the outputs of the transformers, and the ones you dont want to touch ;D ;D
