"Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7 Dec 2005 at 10:05, Adam Maas wrote: > >> 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). > >Not at all true, most now contain circuitry to aid in discharge, in the past >it >was a rarity.
I can tell you from first hand experience that the CRT, even in modern sets, holds a charge a good long time :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com