On a sunny day (Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:21:33 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
RF causes skin burns (darkish brown spots) had it many times. The thing that counts is the current, CRT color TVs had about a few (This is *not* going to be anything close to 400 KV. Maybe 40.
Yes 40 kV makes sense, I have used that in the past. OTOH if it really is a Tesla coil then 400 kV is possible, the thing is slightly bigger than I expected. It will have to wait a few weeks, running battery lifetime test now on that table for my solar powered Geiger counter, there is also a small fortune of chips sitting there, so later. Lipos are very interesting.