Learn About Electricity Safety for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So there's really only two safety concerns when you're circuit bending and the first I've already mention which is you never, never want to circuit bend something that plugs into the wall, unless you know a lot about electronics and you really understand voltage and the risks and the difference between AC and DC and you know about capacitors and what they can and can't do. So, circuit bending things that are battery powered, low voltage is very, very safe. Just don't ever do anything that plugs into a wall until you really feel that you know a lot about electronics and that you are kind of comfortable with going down that road but I personally wouldn't do it. When you are circuit bending something that's low voltage, you won't get a shock--I don't know maybe somethings that run off of a lot batteries and maybe have some big capacitors in them, you might get a little tingle or something but I've never been shocked by anything and it kind of makes sense because I mean, they just run on such low voltage, there's just little AA batteries in them, and so. And most of them don't have large capacitors in them so you're really not going to get shocked. The only real risk that there is in working with circuit boards from an electronics point of view is sometimes you might a bend or try something out that might fry something in the circuit board like you might fry a capacitor or maybe if you send like a lot of electricity through the board, too close to the power source or too close to capacitors or something like that. Sometimes you can bake that circuit board but at least you came out of it unscathed, right? So that's--those are the only risks form kind of the electrical point of view, basically none if your staying with battery powered devices. And then, we're next going to talk about some of the risks from the soldering iron, which is kind of an important thing to think about.

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