Pah!
Looks like all the IT bods nowadays are cissies. What happened to opening the case of a piece of equipment, sticking screwdrivers in the safety cutout switches and watching for the where the problem was?

Even when working on good old fashioned CRTs, where a discharge probe (fnarr) was essential, it wasn't really that dangerous. 14KV isn't that bad. Just follow a few simple rules and you'll be right as rain. Only ever use one hand at a time in the guts of a monitor, that way, if you do get a shock, it's unlikely to bang from one hand to the other, going across your heart in the process. Lose anything metallic that could touch the gubbins inside, one colleague forgot to take his wedding ring off, he had a shock arc across it leaving him with burns on top and bottom of hie ring finger, if you're working on kit with big volts, try and use tools that are well insulated, good lengths of plastic sleeving or even plastic tools.

C'mon, have some balls and stop being a pansy, get your hand inside and fix things. Oh, and if all else fails, there's always the big hammer.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 10:47, Reply)