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High voltage is 1000V AC or 1500V dc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_voltage




If you're an electrician, yes.

In casual conversation it can mean close to mains voltage or higher.

That article itself quotes a bunch of wildly different standards.


I guess anything that can hurt enough to consider medical help is high voltage.


So that would be six volts or something like that? ;)




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