DANGER! 17,000 VOLTS!

Guys, Reason I was bit vague and explaining things bit strangely like this but! I love to see you drve in there BUT you have asolutely no idea what they are. All you need is one touch, you get bit or body bag. Reason I warned you that, and triple reason is that you need to get your friendly guy local in your area to point out in like when TV is open so guy can show you where to watch out and explain many components to you so you will understand more fully what they are for. That way, you will live to old age. Seriously. :) By the way, I did some dumb things in my younger days, I got zapped by a bad plug by a one hand. Pulses of zaps. Zapzapzapzap!!! Ditto to when I touched something inside old monitor that is not meant to be touched. Blew up a green neon lamp by mistake, impressive bang. Also one hand behind or in pocket rule is VERY GOOD for one reason. Keeps you safe and prevent you from making full circuit and flash into heap of ashes. Bad Thing to stand in wet or damp spot too. When I was on a job experience (full time), someone had me to discharge the tube with a wire clip grounded to tube wire straps and a long insulated flat screwdriver. Even on a 12" tube, still makes good LOUD SNAP! with bright flash of blue lightening. These guys who taught me that is totally WRONG after a research in proper discharging tubes. Build your own discharging tool, using high quality stuff, using 2 or 3 50 or 100W 10K ohms cermeric resistors in series encased in silicone glue inside a length of insulating tube to prevent arc over. And leave it there for 2 mins just in case. Leave out those microwaves. Simply too dangerous than monitors and switching PSU's. Primary danger is that hunk of capacitor still charged up with high current and at about 5Kv and you have to go very careful to make sure all the seals is good on microwave. It's actually cheaper to just replace that with new microwave than try to fix it. BTW, the connections inside those microwaves is often exposed. Jason D. email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca Pero, Jason D.