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Chuck,
Glad to read that your injury was relatively minor. When I work on potentially dangerous circuits, I always power down before changing the test circuit connections. This prevents things like drawing an arc that can destroy a flyback, etc. I would have been more pleased to read that you had gotten the set up and running wthout incident, but your experience started a very inportant thread. Those of us who have pets and children need to be especially careful. My son is about ten years past the "toddler" phase, but toddlers need to be kept far away from workbenches. My girlfriend's cat had an unpleasant experience recently after walking under a Zenith 24MC32 that had no bottom plate. Apparently, her tail came into contact with something because she ran out from under that tv as if something had bitten her, then turned around a SNARLED at it. She wasn't seriously hurt, but she was fighting mad. Before installing my Lambda 500VDC @ 500mA power supply in my workbench's equipment rack, I made sure to have top and bottom covers made by the manufacturer who makes my reproduction tv backs.
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