[Al Skierkiewicz]

Guys,
Just for the record, I have seen people get dead from these voltages. Why do you think they put all those stickers on appliances? There is an old pilots adage that can be applied here. "There are old electrical engineers and there are bold electrical engineers. There are NO old, bold electrical engineers! One of my instructors on the first day of AC electronics class told us this...
"Learn to identify people who do not have respect for exposed voltage. Stay away from them for when they go, they take others with them." If you don't think (and believe) that 120 volts is high voltage and lethal I can have a couple of hundred electricians and linemen convince you otherwise. Do you know why the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was formed in 1894? Because the average life expectancy of an electrician was 34 years of age due to working with line voltage.