Did that with 19KV @ 100mA one time. A real pain in the everything. Kurt ----- Original Message ----- From: <WA5CAB at cs.com> :I survived a more or less 2650 VDC hit in 1962. BC-610 with an open : bleeder resistor. 48 years later I still remember that I hurt all over when I : woke up out in the passageway.