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Originally Posted by rowan
If I were you I would definitely avoid fiddling with mains until you know what you're doing. This is not just a throwaway line, I really do mean that. Your life or someone you love's life could depend on it.
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I agree totally.
I have a Tron upright coin-op arcade. And when I got it I plugged it in and reached in the back to fiddle with the settings to get it to display properly. I looked for advice on a Tron board and found out how easily I could have been killed by touching one of the capacitors. Those things are fucking HUGE in those old uprights. And the one that could have killed me was just inchees from where I was fucking around. SCARED the shit out of me.
From now if it's more than 18 volts... I'm not fucking with it. And I mean like, an 18v battery operated drill. Not like car battery shit. I've seen 2 car batteries explode in my time. One was right in a guys face. I never fuck with car bateries now.