And yet, if the voltage is low enough, it will linger for minutes to hours. Plenty of time to kill someone.

Maybe I'm just salty about having had this argument too often recently. But I strongly believe that every mains voltage or higher system needs bleeders across its capacitors. If you don't want to pay for the resistor, fine... but leave the footprint for it.

This goes 10x stronger if the thing is open-frame, sits on a bench, and is regularly being probed by engineers. Just put the goddamn resistors in there before someone gets hurt.

Ahem. Apologies for the intermission.