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Unread 21-07-2003, 10:45
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Originally posted by Tytus Gerrish
that tv had not been pluged in for 5 or 6 weeks and i had removed the compacitors first
I know this may seem a foreign concept, but the Picture Tube is a big capacitor. It's dielectric is the glass envelope and it can hold a 40kV charge for years. (Yes that is years not months!) The other capacitors should have circuitry to drain the charge but they also may hold a hundred volt charge (or more) and should not be handled indiscriminantly.
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