PC Monitor warning

[ClevelandStorms]

i was trying to amp up the voltage and forgot to ground the capacitor and i touched it... it does feel like you're tazzed

never again...

[freespeachrulez]

I remember one time accidently discharging a CRT and I got zapped and it felt like I just got tazzed.. It sent me back a few feet..

[AnasheedCast]

thats just a flyback transformer.

[specialtysolutions]

looks like it would tickle............

[madisonelectronic]

Take a leak on that.

[boris3650]

hey dude the arc was gay .if you want something cool build a good zvs driver and go to flyback and inductance melting :D

[jesseleonard12345]

lick it and see if its like a 9 volt battery

[buttlub]

touch it ........bet you will have 2nd thoughts about touching it agin.,...take it from a man who knows .been there

[akaTheWave]

Youre gay. Consider yourself warned.

[9408994041]

oops excuse me whoo nasty

[Mscorpion001]

holy hell

[Akrurz]

The White wire is connected to the Grey wire, which is attached to the circuit board and probably the HV ground...

It's not charged capacitors, it's the Flyback Transformer on the circuit board, used to make the high voltage that makes a CRT work.

The "Squeak" you can hear at the beginning is the internal capacitors of the Flyback as he turns on the power.

Even though the Current of the flybacks output is non-lethal (1-20mA), the voltage will burn your skin and nerves..

[Akrurz]

The White wire is connected to the Grey wire, which is attached to the circuit board and probably the HV ground...

It's not charged capacitors, it's the Flyback Transformer on the circuit board, used to make the high voltage that makes a CRT work.

The "Squeak" you can hear at the beginning is the internal capacitors of the Flyback as he turns on the power.

[JD8853]

the sparks are fake but the farts are real

[HorseChoker001]

LOL wow i wounder whos gonna really play with that....

[a380rockerfan]

where did you ground the HV- (white wire)?

[juniortore1]

WTF, this is safe, it just doesnt feel good.

And not even the mains input can kill you unless you grab both poles with both hands... and even then you will probably live.

[turtle79070]

staged and bi-sexual

[Ponnybit]

man im so scared... like here's my problem, i bought an arcade machine, really HUGE machine, i EVEN had to take the doors from my living room and study so i could pass the machine trough... now when i was assembling, testing it, the circuit board for the crt burned a cap now i want to take the circuit board out to repair it, or send it to someone for repair but i know i have to discharge it first but im awfully scared... there's no way im gonna ship 120kilo of wood for a circuit board repair...

[robcwise]

Well yeah, a monitor can hold over 25,000 volts and can stay charged for months, even after unplugged.

[mastergx1]

nice arc

crt mainboards are full of large capacitors, if one still holds charge you can get a hell of a belt from it

[RBRat3]

I think a monitor circuit board is safe when its not plugged in and all the caps are discharged. So take your nerdy ass and stick your tongue on that flyback cause Anyone thats willing to take apart a monitor usually has a reason to do so and most of the times its to grab the flyback out of it and the person quite well aware of the dangers. I dunno mabey It has something to do with all the warnings plasterd on the back while your takeing the screws out.

[weeardguy]

@RBRat3 When you discharge the caps in the mains-section of the power supply and 'short' the CRT in a good way, and keeping all of those caps shorted, there's hardly any risk at all indeed. I think it's mainly due to the fact that most people know there is high voltage involved, but don't know how to deal with it.

[Spitzrockz]

i think i can brew beer with that

[brandon14872]

at 1:05 it sounds like a taser

[rawr2131]

1.21 gigawatts!

[ubuntupokemoninc]

simulation of touching a flyback arc:

snap, ow ow ow wowoowowowowo ahha ahhhhhh, ****!!!! , ok that wasn't so bad

[rroge5]

mkay so it might be a scarey spark but it has way less current than if you say , touched the capacitor that holds charge straight from the bridge rectifier (only current limiting being the fuse)

[hellsmaw84]

the flyback transformer is equivalent to that of a neon/fluorescent power supply. i have been zapped messing with a crt and the AMPERAGE is extremely low but the VOLTAGE is extremely high. if you want to experiment with it fine, but it will NOT kill you. try pulling off a spark coil cap while your car is running, all it does is sends voltage through the enter and exit points, not through the entire body. i have done that too and the most it did was made my thumb twitch.

[mannys9130]

If you touch the spark it will kill you. The flyback mA output is more than the amperage needed to send you VF. No doubt about it. The people that are saying discharging the flyback will help, it will not. You need to discharge the CRT tube, not the transformer itself! The flyback charges the crt acting like a capacitor. The crt will discharge to you KILLING you. Discharge the CRT tube and the monitor will be safe. If you dont know what that is, you have no business playing with it!!!

[ZakOpath]

@mannys9130 Dident kill me.. but i hade the chock of my life !!!

And i flew i couple of meters trou the room... :/

True storry.. I never forget that

[myman31sbob]

Um if you unplug it and discharge the flyback your fine. What dick

[tomek123kotek]

well it isnt dangerous until you plug it in and rape the flyback

[lasergeak]

you zapt your self pretty bad before you found out that there is a flyback transformer in there didn't you

[odv000]

I think nobody will toucth this thing on working monitor.

If you want safe remove it on turned off monitor - it's easy: connect wire to monitor ground (wires on graphite covered surface of CRT) and try put other end of wire under this rubber thing. You will discharge it. Afret it is safe to touch.

[teslafredde]

It would hurt but it sertainly wouldn´t kill. but it´s probably better not to take the risk

[firedude201234]

@teslafredde

it wont hurt or kill it just creates an extremely unpleasant tingling feeling all the way up your arm .......granted it was a flatscreen and only a couple hundred volts but sstill wasnt to bad ......bad personal experience though lol

[jetstreek]

@teslafredde buy slick rubber eletrical gloves that is how i do it and i have a cpu that runs starcraft worldofwarcraft and any game you want at the same time thanks to the gloves

[mice512]

@teslafredde Oh, I'm sure, it would! There is 20kV - 30kV voltage on this flyback, it wont cook you like beacon, 'cause flybacks are not as powerful as MOTs, but it will shock your heart, so heart will work incorrectly, and so you will die.

[Driv3th3hiv3]

@mice512 Wrong, no where near enough current coming out of a flyback to do any damage. Doesjnt matter if its 60000Millions trillion over9000 voltages and low current, it still wouldnt do anything to your heart or be close to lethal.

[BoingotheClown]

I was just disconnecting a flyback off a monitor a few minutes ago.

BEWARE THE SUCTION CUP OF DEATH!!!

[BarneySaysHi]

Dude, stop farting at the camera. It's gross!

[yelnam2manley]

@BarneySaysHi That wasn't him. It's the arc (electricity).

[crazybeavers155]

try to mess with a bugzapper

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

I assume maybe by the time youve unplugged the flyback form the CRT youre pretty off track....

[PhxSt0rmz]

It;'s these reasons I take the flyback off the board and then use it. I just bought 24 flybacks..

[ekkrir]

I have know one guy who took apart a tv that had not been plugged in for over a year got about 6000V jult out of the transformer.

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Perhaps due to a charged capacitor or a charge in the CRT.

But over a year....?

[camouflageX2]

Well, it's turned on. That's never good. ;)

[ltcornflakes]

You have quite the light saber going!

[sonofkikkoman]

same thing with televisions ofcourse

[RockeyDA]

Ya thats prity safe I thank im gona play with a flyback trancformer Now!

[lilletizz]

Agreed ^^