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Thanks guys. Now I know.
Not to take this thread way off topic, but I have only seen one TV in my career that apparently actually burst into flames. Until that TV, I had only heard of sets doing this after a lightning strike. TV's may die and emit some smoke (usually as a resistor or device overheats due to a dead short), but no flames. A Guy
Bill is it true that if you try to work in an unplugged TV you can fry yourself if you touch certain capacitors? Which?
The old CRT TV tubes could knock you on your backside if you touched the flyback lead on the picture tube without discharging it first (don't ask how I know ). The tube acted like a large capacitor.
Let's just say that one must discharge to ground the potential stored in an old TV picture tube before trying to remove the flyback lead from the side to avoid getting a nasty zap. Those things can hold that charge for days.