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(Maybe I already told this history here, but here it is again) I never studied electronics. But when I worked some 4 or 5 Km from my house, I used to go back home walking and looking at different people on the streets at night. Near my work there was a very small electronics' school, and I wanted to take a look. Always passed by it and never had the courage to climb the stairs up. Someday I enrolled on that "basic radio & TV course" :o) The classes were boring. I didn't told the teacher I had prior experience with electronics (actually I was - at that time - working repairing and modifying MSX, Amiga and Sinclair computers). But one class was very interesting - how to deal with high voltage :o) The teacher assembled a rigged-up flyback transformer, with a pair of 2N3055 or like, and created something-shockingly that would give around 6000 volts of electrical shock. And told that no one would leave the room before taking a shock from the machine! :oD Imagine what a fuzz! :oD One by one, seeing the teacher and other students taking shocks and telling "it don't hurt!" tried and saw - there was NO pain! :oD A small itching on the finger, but no real pain involved. Ok, let's be serious here: Most of the shock you take from CRTs is more "oops" than electrical shock. A 26000 volts shock hurts, but not THAT bad. There isn't enough power to make your heart stop. If the monitor is turned on, the frequency is so high that the electrons travel on the top of your skin. If the monitor is off, there is NO enough charge on the tube, and it is discharged by a some megohms resitor to ground. Period. So it is not a life concern, but only the scare. Don't be scare of CRTs, they bite but don't hurt :o) Alexandre PS: I'm not a medical doctor, I don't warrant you of nothing I said here. If you put your tongue on the wrong flyback end and it hurts, I'm not responsible. Void where prohibited. Your milegage may vary. Batteries not incluided. If you die because anything I wrote here, the problem is enteirely yours.