[sdiy] a little knowledge is a dangerous thing !

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Lanterman, Aaron" <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:18 AM,  wrote:
>
>> On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Harry Bissell wrote:
>> 
>>> Did he, by any chance... recommend discharging the main filter 
>caps with a screwdriver ??? :^) > > No mention that caps are 
>capable of holding charges at all -- let alone dangerous ones. 
>
>Oh -- and some of the time when he's poking about the capacitors 
>with the fingers of one hand, he's resting his other hand on the 
>chassis. 

A better title for this video would be "Suicide is Painless"...

Oh - and I forgot to mention that even his demonstration of the power
screwdriver showed him slipping off the screw head and contacting the
cases external finish.  As a service person, this is not something I'd
want to do to a unit brought in by a paying customer regardless of how
ratty and tattered it appears to me.

-- ScottG
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