Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Actually he is right we are indulging ourselves.

BTW there is an adenda to the program you use for this forum that tells you when you have a dual poster, both ZG and PF use it. It flags it to admin.
I have on many ocasions being involved with the higher voltage end of electronics [valves] had quite severe shocks, i remember one such instance very vivid, i was testing an amp on the bench, and trying to reduce power supply hum, i tagged a 470uf 450v aerovox cap across the full HT [when it was off ] and turned on the amp, when i had tested what i needed, i unclipped the cap and put it on the bench, still fully charged! after i had finnished for the day i was tidying up my bench as i always do, and without thinking picked up the charged cap, touching both terminals as i did, well, lets just say, there was a lot of shouting, and leaping about, and a couple of holes in my hand where the terminals had burnt through!
not very clever i know, but it taught me a valueable lesson, now i avoid this by fitting discharge resistors!