On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:30:09 GMT, "Angrie.Woman"
wrote:

Tom MacIntyre wrote:



Here I am with my story again...

We have, most of us, tongue-tested a 9 volt battery, I think. I once,
foolishly, tested a 10.6 VDC, 850 mA cellular telephone charger. Big
mistake... :-)

I always have a story. In high school, I took a year of beginning
electronics.

During the first week, out teacher opened up a TV to show us how much power
was still present even though the the set was unplugged. He then proceeded
to show us how to discharge the thing that held the charge. Apparently,
using
a borrowed screwdriver that had a crack in the handle is not the proper way.

Angie

BG

With solid state-uP based sets, the proper way involves the slow
draining of the voltage/current anyway...through a high-value
resistor.

One time we were sending a bunch of CRT's back to the manufacturer for
proof-of- replacement one time, and my wife was labelling them. She
was wearing a knitted sweater, and the sleeve brushed against the 2nd
anode. She wasn't pleased with the result. The CRT had been sitting
for weeks to months...

Tom