06-08-2012, 10:19 PM
(06-08-2012, 05:11 PM)Steve_P Wrote: Good, you've come over to the dark side, where engineers regularly make fun of each other and leave charged capacitors lying about...
Seriously though, snip the capacitor across the mains (Mark will tell you why) and as you are a beginner I'll allow you to wind it up gently on a variac.
Good luck...
Cheers,
Steve P.
Sir Sidney is being genteel with you Fred! Mains caps on a tellie.......... loud bang! especially when you have your head in the cabinet!

once experienced never forgotten.
cheers Mark
Keep on Fiddling!