help! i just shocked the sh*t out of my...

modenaf1 · Aug 5, 2003

donny_paycheck said:
6 of them, and I removed them.

OH thank god only 6!! whew!

considering i clicked the button 300 times when it didnt work. sometimes when the filter is turned off it goes as mayn times as you click the button.

pummer · Aug 5, 2003

I've gotta chime in on this. I painted my monitor, and I've had 2 monitors apart, without being hurt either time. My thing is:

Don't touch what looks like it shouldn't be touched, and you'll be OK.

The Spyder · Aug 5, 2003

theres a good website that shows you how to discharge the caps...

Btw- everyone needs a good shock now and then-

Ive been hit with around 10k voltage direct from a transformer-
I was numb all day- that sucked.....

donny_paycheck · Aug 5, 2003

The Spyder said:
theres a good website that shows you how to discharge the caps...

Link?

Personally I connect a lug to the grounding screw of a wall outlet or light switch, then I connect that via a long wire to a length screwdriver. Viola. Poor man's shorting probe.

NcBaller1985 · Aug 5, 2003

I live in boring a$$ Wilmington, North Carolina. Bout 2 hours from Myrtle Beach.

Graphic67 · Aug 5, 2003

NcBaller1985 said:
And it is always nice to hear from someone in North Carolina. Not to many of us on here.

After that stunt, we may have to ask you to leave the state...

Bobby · Aug 5, 2003

Graphic67 said:
After that stunt, we may have to ask you to leave the state...

I thought all you guys started with "Hey hold my beer and watch this..."

-Bobby

NcBaller1985 · Aug 5, 2003

Hey now, don't mess with the dirty south son. Damn yankees. hehe j/k

Actually I'm FROM St. Louis but lived in this dump of a town for most my life. NOTHING beats STL though.

Kino · Aug 5, 2003

just in case, if youre thinkin on opening that thing again, use THICK rubber gloves (might as well put on 2 pairs of em, one over the other) , THICK boots or shoes, and be VERY careful wile at it

AcEmAsTr · Aug 5, 2003

everyone seems to double post today lol

Graphic67 · Aug 5, 2003

Wait for the server and only hit "Submit" once...

Crash893 · Aug 5, 2003

i was going to post some acutall electrical inuries

lets just say i would have banned for a rank if i posted them here

they are pretty nasty

and side note i dont know what is up with the double posting lately

Coolio · Aug 6, 2003

there was a similar question a while back and i thnk the best answer was to discharge all the caps etc. in the monitor. If you don't know how i think some computer shops can do it for you (safest bet..if you don't know what you are doing

) but then that would be UBER enough

star882 · Aug 7, 2003

"i thought discharging caps with an old well insulated screwdriver was common knowledge to anyone working on HV equipment that has caps."
The caps in a computer PSU store enough charge to melt the end of a screwdriver!

Daemonfly · Aug 7, 2003

It's common knowledge for people who commonly work on said parts. Problem is, most modders don't have said knowledge.

Most monitors have a warning, but a lot of PSUs don't have any warning at all, although the danger is a bit less.

warlock110 · Aug 7, 2003

man u guys are scaring me, i have a habit of turning off the back of the PSU then i jump right into my computer's component, is that dangerous? crap, how do u prevent from getting shock.

ryuen · Aug 7, 2003

i turn off the psu and push the on button. it kinda turns on and it turns back right away. i think thats safe. right?

siavash_s_s · Aug 7, 2003

uhh i dont even turn my psu off, i just jump straight in, nothing will happen (tho turning off psu is al whole lot smarter) if u know what ure doing , which is touching things that should be touched, not the cmos reset switch for example. anyway my psu's both broke and i wann *safely* steal some resistors from inside, any one got an idea, im thinking just leave em for a day or so

donny_paycheck · Aug 7, 2003

An ATX PSU won't have a charge in it after a few minutes, much less a day. If you unplug it and listen closeley you can hear the bleeder resistors drain the capacitors within 10 seconds.

Fushyuguru · Aug 7, 2003

donny_paycheck said:
An ATX PSU won't have a charge in it after a few minutes, much less a day. If you unplug it and listen closeley you can hear the bleeder resistors drain the capacitors within 10 seconds.

I actually did the calculations for an average PSU's discharge time using mesured values for the Caps and discharge circuits resistance I got from an old 300W PSU. I posted it a while back when people were fighting (i mean discussing) about how long to leave you r PSU unplugged before you can poke around in it. Someone had everyone believing you had to unplug it for a week or more...

It came out to roughly 8 or 9 minutes.

I use a modified naked PSU in my server case, so I can stand by my calculations.

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