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		rayiner 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 In high school we used them as a high voltage source to make lifters: https://youtu.be/jrfBrrDfdEA

sevensor 26 days ago [–]

My high school electronics teacher had a screwdriver that was permanently welded to the terminals of a capacitor he’d pulled from a TV set. “This is why you use a resistor to discharge one of these things,” he said.

rayiner 26 days ago | [–]

TIL. I always used a screwdriver to discharge those capacitors lol.

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