> Did you say "Hey, everybody! Watch THIS!" first? No, but I worked with an electrician who used to lick his fingers and would make sparks jump across a live circuit. This place had waste pits in the floor, oil, water, and metal waste that is. At one place in the plant, honest to dog, someone stood by you with a 2x4 to knock you away from an electrical panel, in case your muscles locked up from the current. It never happened to me but a co-worker had his arm broken getting knocked from the panel. The owner tried to fight the worker's compensation claim. Ah memories.
> (For those who don't know, the rule-of-thumb for flyback voltage that I > learned is 1kV/inch of diagonal measurement, e.g., a 12" CRT would have a > 12,000-volt flyback voltage. And it's stored in a capacitor, so--as Kevin > noted--it can get you even when the set is turned off and the power is > disconnected. Which is the point behind the earlier safety warnings about > working on such equipment. There _is_ a proper, safe way to discharge the > flyback voltage capacitor, but it does _not_ involve putting your finger in > the hole . . . ) 27kV! Cool. It never got better. My friend never knew about the CRT voltage. After seeing me get lit up he started discharging the tubes, by sticking a large screwdriver wrapped with a grounding wire into the hole. This guy isn't dumb, he just likes sparks. He works for himself now fixing medical equipment for hospitals. I won't say where, don't want to knock down the tourist trade. Kevin T.
