Same advice as disassembling a very old CRT TV - leave it unplugged for 24 hours for all the capacitors to discharge if you’re wanting to reuse the bits for any projects that you’re doing. Otherwise, spicy voltages may still be present.
Just one minor quibble, leaving a old TV unplugged for 24 hours does not make it safe. Capacitors can hold a deadly charge for days, months, or even years.
You’ll give me traumatic flashbacks to our electricians checking the industrial overload settings by dropping a spanner onto the busbars. If the switchgear tripped out before the spanner melted, then the settings must be correct.
I’m reminded of that video of the two guys in an attic with a massive transformer and then using the ends to melt steel tools. I also wonder what wonderfully fun lung diseases those guys ended up with
Same advice as disassembling a very old CRT TV - leave it unplugged for 24 hours for all the capacitors to discharge if you’re wanting to reuse the bits for any projects that you’re doing. Otherwise, spicy voltages may still be present.
Just one minor quibble, leaving a old TV unplugged for 24 hours does not make it safe. Capacitors can hold a deadly charge for days, months, or even years.
Just like microwaves, most of them have discharging resistors, and are easy to discharge safely manually by looking up how and being careful.
You don’t have dedicated high voltage discharge device, a screw driver taped to a big not conductive stick?
You’ll give me traumatic flashbacks to our electricians checking the industrial overload settings by dropping a spanner onto the busbars. If the switchgear tripped out before the spanner melted, then the settings must be correct.
I’m reminded of that video of the two guys in an attic with a massive transformer and then using the ends to melt steel tools. I also wonder what wonderfully fun lung diseases those guys ended up with
How else am I supposed to check if the “kill your entire family twice” capacitor out of a microwave is angry or not?
Round a nut? You go into the busbar box.
There are also videos online on how to safely discharge them, just in case there is still power left