Originally Posted by
greytruck
One hour photo places take the batteries out of one time use cameras. there is also a little circut board and wire in them. a guy took his apart for scrap i guess, and it sparked on him when he ripped out the stuff. He didnt take the battery out. I thought what a moron. As being a scrapper watching him in the store.
If it was a flash one time use camera they have a pretty powerful capacitator in them and that is probably what got him. You can hear the capacitor humm/whirr and charge up after you take a picture with one of them.
My father is an HVAC tech and told me a story about how he learned the hard way not to store capacitators in the same pants pocket as a AA battery. He had replaced an old capacitator on a furnace and put the old one in his pocket after discharging it. About 3 hours later he got one hell of a shock right where you don't want to get a shock! He figures the loose AA battery in his pocket much have charged the capacitator somehow.
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