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[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

For reference, if you can physically feel an ESD (electrostatic discharge) event, aka shock, then it's at probably least 3kV, could be 10+ kV. But they're incredibly short duration transients, on the order of microseconds.