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Re: Inside power supplies: Where are the shocks?
- Subject: Re: Inside power supplies: Where are the shocks?
- From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
- Date: 1998/06/05
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services, Richardson, TX
- References: <6l6jtd$1br8$1@lynx.unm.edu> <6l89pj$1jns$5@lynx.unm.edu>
- Reply-to: rubywand@swbell.net
stephen e buggie writes ...
>
> Having written this essay, its now inevitable that I will be electrocuted
> on my next venture inside of a power supply.
....
The odds are pretty good that you will not be fried. Of course,
should you turn off and unplug the power supply, and, within a few
seconds, grab the two really wrong points of the big input caps, you
could be tossed for a little flip!
Rubywand
P.S. By the way, there _may_ be some shock hazard at the AC plug prongs
for a time after the power supply is unplugged.