NES saftey

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:10 pm

I wanted to take my NES apart and see what I can do about portableizing it, or at least look at the circuit board, but my mom says it might carry a charge even with not beeing plugged in. Is this true?

geekbait111 · Post by **geekbait111** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:45 pm

I'm not an expert on this nor the nintendo but I'm using my amateur skills and common sense for this

I really doubt it unless there's a power source that powered it. Otherwise the electricity would have passed it by like 1 sec. so in other words: nope

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:58 pm

I pretty much knew that, just needed proof for my mom to let me take it apart. Thanks, but she already looked it up and found it safe, so right now I have a caseless NES

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:21 pm

Don't listen to her. My mom said that it was dangerous to take computers apart. I really wanted to take an old EMachines that was sitting on the street, BUT NO!

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:25 pm

lol if she didn't catch me looking for a screwdriver I would have not even had a problem

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:24 pm

What you should know about (you don't have to act on it, but know the risk) is that YOU might carry a charge that could fry the NES. At the very least, touch a grounded area before you touch the board.

@vb_master: if it was the one with the built-in CRT, she was right. Those carry a charge of several kilovolts, even when off. If you touch the point where the flyback transformer connects to the tube, you're dead. Period. Unless you discharged it first of course.

Warning: don't mess around with CRT monitors. They ARE dangerous!

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:26 pm

Get some antistatic wrist bands from radio shack. Especially if it is a n64.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:25 pm

usbcd36 wrote:What you should know about (you don't have to act on it, but know the risk) is that YOU might carry a charge that could fry the NES. At the very least, touch a grounded area before you touch the board.

@vb_master: if it was the one with the built-in CRT, she was right. Those carry a charge of several kilovolts, even when off. If you touch the point where the flyback transformer connects to the tube, you're dead. Period. Unless you discharged it first of course.

Warning: don't mess around with CRT monitors. They ARE dangerous!

How would you discharge it first? In some other posts someone was talking about using a screwdriver to short them.

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:40 am

Meh I took my crt apart but then again it hadn't been plugged in for ages and ages but as you can tell i'm not dead yet!

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:41 am

GHOST! OMG!

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » Mon May 29, 2006 10:13 am

My cousin and I took apart an old TV once, and were not dead. But the TV was broken, so maybe that had something to do eith it

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:02 pm

An NES board won't fry you if it's touched, but you can fry it via static electricity. I killed a PSOne screen that way

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CTFan

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:08 pm

Actually the flyback capacitor only can really put out about 400v DC at a safe amperage (It WILL hurt like Hellt though, mabye char the end of your fingers)

BUT STILL, Transformers regardless are dangerous because the changing in the current messes with the pulses of the central nervous system and therefore renders you motionless (that is why AC is dangerous, and why you always work on AC current with a buddy, so he can beat you with a 2x4 if you get juiced by the AC current and he won't become part of the circuit)

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:12 pm

lol, I waatched a movie where someone got electric shocked, and they had to beat him off the fence so he didnt die.

Lucky!

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:59 pm

Sword_Gun wrote:lol, I waatched a movie where someone got electric shocked, and they had to beat him off the fence so he didnt die.

Lucky!

That would be a great excuse to beat someone.