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Come to think of it are medium sized high voltage capacitors really that much of an electrocution risk in the first place? I mean sure as anything they can thr

Come to think of it are medium sized high voltage capacitors really that much of an electrocution risk in the first place? I mean sure as anything they can throw you back into your seat and cause a relatively decent burn but in practice are they really an electrocution risk? You're not going to get trapped and unable to let go. Edit: Looks like the biggest risk from a high voltage DC discharge is myocardial depolarization, and that's dependent on the current path and the timing of the heart rythym, but that's typically at energies an order of magnitude more than a charged typical motor capacitor

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petre 5y ago
>75 mA across the heart might be fatal. An AC motor capacitor would probably just give you a short shock since it's only used to introduce a phase shift on the auxiliary phase in single phase AC motors (what the OP is talking about) or for power factor correction in 2/3 phase AC motors. AC switches every 20 ms from positive to negative so the cap only stores very little power. I'd be more weary of capacitors in DC circuits.