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This has been interesting for me to dig into. I'm not 100% certain everything I have is correct (e.g. not from the latest standards), but it helps to make sense of things. The 2 kV level appears to be a "historical standard", representing the minimum voltage that a human will feel as a static shock. ...

Do you mean where the numerical values themselves came from, or why some are the same for both air and contact discharge? ------------------------------ Shane Caraker NASA ------------------------------

Even now I still like to watch giant robots. GoBots never seem to get as much love as some of the other properties. I had a habit of taking apart old radios as a child, mainly AM pocket (transistor) radios. Then some exposure to early personal computers (Sinclair, TRS80, etc). Eventually I had the ...