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edianorh on July 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal woo...

I got zapped by the capacitor of a photo flash twice. I studied electronics, I was being carefully, and still I messed up. The second time I was being even more careful and I thought the capacitor was discharged. I'm not even sure how it happened, I was holding the PCB by the edges.

ugjka on July 1, 2022 [–]

Mine was a bigass capacitor from a mountable flash that plugged into the mains, that thing definitely kills

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