DANGER! 17,000 VOLTS!

From: jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Thu Jun 4 08:11:49 1998

Guys,

Reason I was bit vague and explaining things bit strangely like this
but! I love to see you drve in there BUT you have asolutely no idea
what they are. All you need is one touch, you get bit or body bag.

Reason I warned you that, and triple reason is that you need to get
your friendly guy local in your area to point out in like when TV is
open so guy can show you where to watch out and explain many
components to you so you will understand more fully what they are
for.

That way, you will live to old age. Seriously. :)

By the way, I did some dumb things in my younger days, I got zapped
by a bad plug by a one hand. Pulses of zaps. Zapzapzapzap!!!
Ditto to when I touched something inside old monitor that is not
meant to be touched. Blew up a green neon lamp by mistake,
impressive bang.

Also one hand behind or in pocket rule is VERY GOOD for one reason.
Keeps you safe and prevent you from making full circuit and flash
into heap of ashes. Bad Thing to stand in wet or damp spot too.
When I was on a job experience (full time), someone had me to
discharge the tube with a wire clip grounded to tube wire straps and
a long insulated flat screwdriver. Even on a 12" tube, still makes
good LOUD SNAP! with bright flash of blue lightening. These guys who
taught me that is totally WRONG after a research in proper
discharging tubes. Build your own discharging tool, using high
quality stuff, using 2 or 3 50 or 100W 10K ohms cermeric resistors in
series encased in silicone glue inside a length of insulating tube to
prevent arc over. And leave it there for 2 mins just in case.

Leave out those microwaves. Simply too dangerous than monitors and
switching PSU's. Primary danger is that hunk of capacitor still
charged up with high current and at about 5Kv and you have to go very
careful to make sure all the seals is good on microwave. It's
actually cheaper to just replace that with new microwave than try to
fix it. BTW, the connections inside those microwaves is often
exposed.

Jason D.
email: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 08:11:49 BST

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