>Electricity is dangerous. In every form. Period. Keep your fingers away from it when you don't know what you do An additional problem here is that the risks a

>Electricity is dangerous. In every form. Period. Keep your fingers away from it when you don't know what you do An additional problem here is that the risks are different in different forms. Here, it sounds like people are approaching the technique based on their experiences and assumptions about mains electricity, or even car batteries. 2 kV is high enough voltage that arcing is a risk. Things they'll assume are insulators and safe, or even usable as protection, may be conductive through dielectric breakdown: in the case of wood, that's the whole point of the technique. Even air won't necessarily be safe if they're handling things so closely, especially if it's humid, in which case they could get breakdown at well over 1 mm. Meanwhile, GFCI/RCD is useless, because of the transformer.