I think the most frightening was when I touched something I shouldn't have inside a CRT with a screwdriver... Let's just say I don't fuck with CRT monitors anymore.
Output of the flyback transformer...very high voltage.
No explosions or being blown back 20+ feet as you would imagine. Just a very large, and very bright spark and the screwdriver ended up flying out of my hand (still not sure if I threw it instinctively or if it was forcibly ejected)
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Haha, a techie friend of mine, who also happens to be 400lbs or so, said he was thrown back across the room after touching the wrong part of a monitor. Incredible power stored up in those things...
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I'm pretty sure the caps on the output of that flyback transformer (the thing that makes the high pitched whine that only some people seem to be able to hear) are over 10kV.