Capacitor discharge accident
Hey guys wanted to ask if you made similar experience. Year's ago when I was pretty new to building capacitor banks and getting into pulsed power and exploding wires etc I accidentally touched a 0.22uf 2kV cap and I was quite shocked by what happened. It didn't hurt at all. All my muscles just locked up and my view went totally black. A second later I was back and at first I didn't realized what happened. I knew I got shocked while rewiring stuff but I didn't know why and by what. I checked the main cap bank, all empty, zero volts ( I knew because I had it shorted for safety before rewiring stuff) I checked the transformer and the variac and the plug to mains voltage. Everything was dead, unplugged and safe. It took me another second to realize ohh shit that 0.22uf 2kV cap had voltage left. It happened because I was stupid, it was such a small capacitor and such low capacity and joules. I didn't took it seriously enough. Was like ohh that little thing ain't lethal. Yeah I was stupid. Since then I never had another accident and I'm glad it wasn't the 360uf 5.6kV cap bank. I guess if it was I couldn't make this post. Anyone else ever made a similar experience? No pain but pretty much just shut me down.