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<x-flowed>It is not really as simple as that. Your car battery can put out better than 200 amps but you body resistance will not let it through. There is enough energy inside a CRT type computer monitor to hurt a person, and 25,000 volts can guarantee every bit of stored energy is passed through your body. At 05:12 PM 8/2/01 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:48:19 -0400, you wrote: > > >Another caution. You have to be nuts to fool around with the inside of a > >computer monitor -- or tv. Dead is dead (you, not the monitor); the > >voltages are way high. > >High voltage is nothing to be concerned about. When you shuffle your >feet across the carpet and discharge yourself on a doorknob or an >unsuspecting victim, you are dealing with thousands of volts. >It is current that is the killer. >----------------------------------------------------------- >Victor Engel lights@onr.com http://the-light.com >- >Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate >subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </x-flowed>
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