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Re: What to do with big capacitors?

Now I don't know much about electricity, but I can tell you...

Be careful!

The most painful wound I have ever had was an electrical burn from a capacitor when I was in middle school - and it was only the capacitor from a camera flash. (A 110 camera... no less). AND I thought it was discharged. (

Two fingers touched the leds... burned down deep... lots of smoke and burnt flesh... no blood because it was cotterized. I still have brown burn marks at the entry and exit points.

And to put this in relative pain terms, I also shot myself in the hand with an arrow in high school gym class (target tip lucky for me). Electical burn still worse.
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