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Careful! Those capacitors can hold a lethal current for years!

^yeah no kidding, my heart jumped when she got close to the capacitors the size of C batteries.

surely this is *wtf

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Good call dgandhi, added to wtf. All this attention and so few votes? There must be some broken left mouse buttons out there

^oops!

*requeue, and a bonus: The Björk Song

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Wow, this reminds me of the time when I thought Bjork was hot. I knew I wasn't crazy for thinking that way! The hot Bjork existed!

Bjork is a whole lot of weird wrapped into one tiny woman.

if you think Bjork is weird, you should check out her American artist boyfriend, Matthew Barney.

*femme!

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The entire country of Iceland is now bankrupt- for real. At least Bjork has future career opportunities!

*quality Björk

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This is AWESOME! Thank you for finding this.

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The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.

Also, she's weird.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.
Also, she's weird.


Yeah, my old boss got shocked by the CRT discharge and his arm swung against the side of the wall and he got cut really bad. It has about the same effect has getting shocked by an ignition coil from a car. I had a similar situation while working on a tube amplifier (around 600V).

High voltage DC will basically burn you really bad (provided it has enough current), but unless you have heart condition it probably won't kill you. It will defibrillate you and wake you up though.

High voltage low frequency AC (between 30 and 1000hz) is deadly starting at around 45 volts. As you get into the higher frequency AC voltages it has less affect on your heart, and thus less likely to kill you.

>> ^drk421:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
The capacitors aren't the problem as stated above. The CRT itself is a very large capacitor (stores charge) and can knock you on your ass for a long time after the tv is unplugged.
Also, she's weird.

Yeah, my old boss got shocked by the CRT discharge and his arm swung against the side of the wall and he got cut really bad. It has about the same effect has getting shocked by an ignition coil from a car. I had a similar situation while working on a tube amplifier (around 600V).
High voltage DC will basically burn you really bad (provided it has enough current), but unless you have heart condition it probably won't kill you. It will defibrillate you and wake you up though.
High voltage low frequency AC (between 30 and 1000hz) is deadly starting at around 45 volts. As you get into the higher frequency AC voltages it has less affect on your heart, and thus less likely to kill you.


I saw a chart once in physics class that showed the lethality vs. frequency of AC. The peak was at 50 Hz--right where Europe put their power supply.

I got bit by 277VAC 50Hz once--burned a 1/2 inch hole 1/4 inch deep in my arm.
(I wish we had the metric system in the old USA)

Richard Feynman would have upvoted this.

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There is a reason there are labels on TV that say ..
"No user replaceable parts inside".

'user serviceable' parts....means don't try and service the capacitors

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