I know that many of you have heard of the warning that the Electrohome G07 filter cap can maintain a charge and give you a nice little bite.
I found out this weekend that the bite it could give you could potentially be a bite more than nice and little. HOLY CRAP! I was pulling a G07 chassis that I knew had a blown small fuse when it slipped and the filter cap shorted to the chassis... ***>>> S N A P <<<*** and damn was the flash bright (bright enough to actually illuminate the brown dirty ass G07 PCB. It was easily as loud as a standard issue fire cracker.
I can only imagine what that kind of voltage would feel like going in to a finger or hand...
While I respected it before, I now at least have an idea of the kind of voltage potential that filter cap has. Prior to this the biggest spark i'd seen was from the anode hole to a discharging tool at about 1/2" or so... with a sound about 1/4 as loud as this snap.
Just SO glad it wasn't a finger...
I found out this weekend that the bite it could give you could potentially be a bite more than nice and little. HOLY CRAP! I was pulling a G07 chassis that I knew had a blown small fuse when it slipped and the filter cap shorted to the chassis... ***>>> S N A P <<<*** and damn was the flash bright (bright enough to actually illuminate the brown dirty ass G07 PCB. It was easily as loud as a standard issue fire cracker.
I can only imagine what that kind of voltage would feel like going in to a finger or hand...
While I respected it before, I now at least have an idea of the kind of voltage potential that filter cap has. Prior to this the biggest spark i'd seen was from the anode hole to a discharging tool at about 1/2" or so... with a sound about 1/4 as loud as this snap.
Just SO glad it wasn't a finger...

