Re: US Navy electronics tech training

"Mickey" <mickey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 2008-04-16, liquidator <mikeh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> ><0junk4me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > news:z4nNj.5898$3v1.4841@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Thank you- will pass that on
> >
> >> I. Beware of the lightning that lurketh in seemingly uncharged
> >> capacitors lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks in an
> >> unseamanlike manner and cause thy hair to stand on end, therby
exceeding
> >> regulation length.
> >>
> >
> >
> > About 35 years ago got knocked on my ass by a Marshall amp while
attemting
> > repair. Walked around with a piece of dead meat on my fingertip for a
couple
> > weeks.
> >
> > Capacitors are no joke.
> >
> > Was at a computer recycler a couple years back- new guy, kinda biker
type,
> > grabbed a UPS to dismantle- a big one.
> >
> > Loud bang, and confused looking biker type looking at a screwdriver
missing
> > it's tip.
>
> I didn't touch one, but got too close to the high-voltage power supply
> on a radar. It arced, and burnt a hole completely through my finger. A
> small one, but I still have the scar after 25 years.
>
> 25,000 volts -- good thing it was only a couple of milliamps, or I
wouldn't
> be alive today.
>
> --
> Mickey
> People who want to share their religious views with you
> almost never want you to share yours with them. -- Dave Barry


There was a case here, I think in the 80's- a young officer went into an
area he wasn't supposed to.

Being next to a radar antenna is literally like being in a giant microwave
oven- it's usually fatal.

Has nothing top do with caps, just to point out electronic hazards are
real...