Reminds me of the time many years ago when doing maintenance on a 10Kw HF radio transmitter, some other tech had left an AVO8 multimeter switched to its amps range grounding the HT capacitors rather than the standard earthing stick. When power was reapplied and having forgotten about the meter, its internal fuse didnt help, when 2 amps at 7000 volts was directed through it. We spent several hours picking up small pea sized bits of Bakelite and meter internals from inside the transmitter internals. Sounded good though when it exploded.
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