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The bane of my childhood was hysterical, clueless adults warning about how I could die from opening anything with a CRT in it... yet here I am!
by julespitt 13y ago
The bane of my childhood was hysterical, clueless adults warning about how I could die from opening anything with a CRT in it... yet here I am!
- joosters 13y agoYes, that must mean it was all lies and misinformation. Thanks for setting us straight on that.
- epo 13y agoFascinating. Please share your insights about drink driving, we'd love to know.
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- rayiner 13y agoIt's too bad nobody has CRT's anymore. We used to build these in high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibW_x8lWWFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibW_x8lWWFM. Yes, it's entirely as awesome as it looks.
- bri3d 13y agoFor all the sarcastic responses to this post, I can't find a single record of a death by CRT. I found lots of references to people accidentally touching the HV side of CRTs and receiving a painful shock but none of the shock causing any lasting issues. Death by CRT is definitely possible in theory and the lack of real-world examples could be an issue of shoddy reporting (i.e. cardiac arrest due to electric shock minus a CRT as the specific reason) but I'd think think that across the millions and millions of CRTs sold there'd be at least one concrete report of a death. Does anyone know of any?
- tibbon 13y agoSame with guitar tube amps. "Deadly voltage", but I can't find many/any instances of people actually getting killed from tube gear repair.
- billforsternz 13y agoSend out the Mythbusters bat-signal