Yeah, I forget the actual numbers, but to generate x-ray you have to hit tungsten with an arc at about 15k vac to atomize the material.

We don't work in the tube heads, but that's a lot of juice to play with up to the head. Our old techs used to work inside the transformer for the old 100/100 x-rays... Crossed lines often resulted in a fireball.

LEDs are powered by dc, conventional diodes run at 1.2vdc, only reason I know that. Your LED set up, if your transformer was removed as sherita indicated, would have given you a blast of dc juice.

The other day I had a pump go out in my sump which provided a nice AC tingle to the water since I was standing barefoot on the floor. Since I had frags to put in the tank, and I couldn't, I asked Milly to do it.

She stood on the stand which didn't give her a path to ground.... Until I grabbed her arm.