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adjl posted...

Heck, the same is true of home microwaves. I had one die recently in a way that made me suspect a fuse blew, so I looked up how/if it was possible to change a microwave fuse. The first step was "This is super dangerous seriously just call an electrician but if you insist on doing it anyway here's how," followed by like 90% of the procedure being everything you have to set up to be able to safely discharge the capacitor. Needless to say, I opted to just get the landlord to replace it.

Oh yeah microwave transformers are used often in DIY projects and get people killed all the time. It's pretty irresponsible to promote using them to the general population.

I find it kind of badly designed? Capacitors should discharge themselves on shutting off?