Colin,
     Watts, watt hours which is closely rated to joules are important=20
but so is voltage and amperage rating. A thousand volt system has to be=20
very carefully set up or you are risking flash which is very dangerous=20
and destructive. Even a small amount of amperage at 1KV is a lot of=20
power. When I say small I mean in the one tenth to one half amp rage, A=20
very small amperage would be in the 10s of milliamps to one tenth amp,=20
extremely small currents would be in the nanoamp to milliamp range.
Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I haven't read that article yet. I'm still setting my computer back up=
..
Thanks,
rich!

On 6/27/2014 5:19 AM, cdb wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:01:42 -0500, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> :: I would like to see how they are doing 1000 volt PV
> :: installations. Very dangerous. Lots of power there. Also goes the
> :: same for 1.5KV systems but even more so
>
> I think we should probably be discussing this in terms of Joules or Watts
> rather than voltage/currents.
>
> Electronic massage machines can have between 500 and 1kV outputs, but the
> current is in the micro/nano amps, therefore it is not the voltage or
> current per se but the combination and time/frequency exposed that is the
> item of interest. Defibrillators outputs are also referenced in Joules.
>
> I think this is an extract from the paper I have somewhere at work -
>

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