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Offline ACE

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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #30 on: May 16, 2014, 10:45:57 AM »
Yeah. It stores electricity. The ones we mess with sometimes hold enough electricity to help start a 4,000 volt magnetron for a microwave at Mcdonalds. A man was killed at the factory class a long time ago.
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2014, 01:53:49 AM »
See Rules #2, #4
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2014, 03:22:17 AM »
Instead of relying on Chalenges Youtube certification videos:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Leathal current is 0.1 - 0.2 amps. A cap can give easily a short burst of that.
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2014, 06:13:16 PM »
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2014, 10:39:26 PM »
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #35 on: May 18, 2014, 02:47:12 AM »
See Rules #2, #4
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #36 on: May 18, 2014, 04:59:19 AM »
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #37 on: May 18, 2014, 05:03:36 AM »
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #38 on: May 18, 2014, 08:03:11 AM »
Need capacitors in an emergency and you live in Finland? No problem! Digi-Key can help! Always helpful and available with friendly, courteous advice!

http://www.digikey.fi/

They also have a wide assortment of Uninterruptable Power Supplies to make sure your computing pleasure is non-stop!
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #39 on: May 18, 2014, 09:41:42 AM »
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #40 on: May 18, 2014, 11:56:41 AM »
Quote from: Chalenge on May 18, 2014, 08:03:11 AM
Need capacitors in an emergency and you live in Finland? No problem! Digi-Key can help! Always helpful and available with friendly, courteous advice!

http://www.digikey.fi/
Just to clarify one thing: Tinkering with electronics is fully legal for everyone here if the voltages are low enough: 50V AC or 120 V DC. Basically that allows repairing gadgets which are connected to a transformer such as a power supply. It is allowed to do minor mains powered electricity jobs, though, for example connecting a lamp to a screw terminal or replacing a broken wall outlet cover. Extreme caution is required by the law. Building and repairing hobby level electric devices is also allowed, but replacing caps inside a power unit doesn't fit into any of those categories. But as has been said, what is illegal here may be legal elsewhere. BTW I found an interesting site about dumb laws, both American and International: http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/texas. Good stuff for those who'd like to mock a foreigner.
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #41 on: May 18, 2014, 06:51:43 PM »
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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #42 on: May 19, 2014, 03:40:49 PM »
My personal saying is... If I don't know I will go to someone who does and ask their advice. Ripley does make a good point on allot of things here. There is a reason why I wont try to repair a PSU in a computer or a monitor. I don't know the difference between a capacitor and a rheostat.. electronics like that are beyond my capabilities.

Best advice I can give ... you take your own life into your own hands when messing with electronics if you don't know what you are doing.

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Re: What is life expectancy of a monitor?
« Reply #43 on: May 19, 2014, 11:20:14 PM »
I still chuckle at my inferior PSU, being anything but inferior.   :airplane:
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