On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Fred Taylor <fbtaylor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Personal experience. I discharged a 20K capacitor with a screw driver in a

> graphics monitor a long time ago, trying to make an adjustment on a pot.

> Nearly broke my elbow when my arm straightened out so suddenly.

>

> Fred

Back in high school I had a neighbor that was a field tech for

Burroughs... people would be really nosy with all the tools and gizmos

he had laid out on the desk and he got tired of them messing with

things when he stepped away...

He told me that he resorted to first day at a place charging up some

big shiny capacitor and left it sitting in plain sight when he went

off to lunch... said it never failed that it was discharged when he

got back, but no one messed with his stuff the rest of the time he was

there...

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Matt Jarvis

Eugene, Oregon USA

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