I'm wearing a plastic watchband and have been for ~16 years. The watch
proper is also plastic. Also no rings, and no chains. I worry a lot about
my spectacles, which have metal frames. And I'd like to say that you were
lucky it was a *low* voltage battery. Bigger ones work better as you can
imagine. Ac too. Even if your body is insulated. I have a friend who
barely escaped from the death-hug of his golden neckchain which decided to
pop out of his shirt while he was bending over a HV smpsu, and another who
was saved by his spectacles from blindness by acid steam exhaust from a
capacitor.  Also there's nothing like working around rf transmitter tank
coils to teach you about the value of *removable* wedding rings and *not*
having any teeth fillings (let alone implants).

Peter

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