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by CamperBob2 2940 days ago
You'll live.
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In both cases with overwhelming probability. But there is difference: you have to be extraordinary clumsy to get life-threatening burn from soldering iron, but you can get life threatening burn from HF HV very easily.
Not from a CCFL inverter, you won't.

This thread serves as a great example of why it's not a good idea to plaster dire warning labels all over everything on the planet "just to be safe." When everything is dangerous, nothing is.