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In telecoms 48V dc is very common and not always even connectorised! It's "safe-ish" but DC makes me more nervous than 240v, big thick 400A cables into a rack are quite intimidating to see but the main issue is DC is sticky and doesn't have the safety protections of RCDs etc. Indeed you are lucky to get a working isolator.


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