Originally Posted by
Frank Pratt
If there's enough current to burn the wood, there's more than enough to cook your guts. I don't know why people pull out the old argument that it isn't the high voltage that kills. If you have a source with sufficient power output to do harm to a human, then high voltage is definitely the killer. It's the high voltage that drives the current up to dangerous levels.
It's kinda like saying that a fall from a great height won't kill you. It's the sudden stop at the end that does.