At least you didn't find out the hard way about being real dead...
Mark Roberts wrote:
mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mike wilson wrote:
It probably made sense to limit supply to those who had an at least rudimentary
knowledge of what they were doing when TVs and radios had tubes and you could
create death very easily. Today, you would have to try very hard to hurt
yourself with the
electricity in household entertainment goods. A pacemaker might take exception.
Umm, TV's and CRT monitors are just as dangerous as 40 years ago.
All that voltage is in the Capacitors and the CRT tubes, and CRT's are
still the most common technology for TV. Radios are safer, but they
always were (You don't need 20,000+ volts on an amplifier tube).
Modern electronics use a lot less current, though. You could quite easily fry in your own body fat with either a TV or radio 40 years ago. Modern equipment is much less powerful, in that sense.
Oh, not CRT's! If anything they are more dangerous because the demand
for shorter (front-to-back) dimensions for a given frontal area requires
more "oomph" in the deflection circuitry. The 2nd anode voltage (That's
the heavy cable that goes from the flyback transformer to the side of
the picture tube) and current has pretty much remained the same over the
years, though. 25-30kV and enough current to make you real dead. Heck,
even a few minutes after the power is shut off they retain enough charge
to knock you off your feet. Ask me how I know ;-)
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