The multimeter I bought doesn't appear to have a 500V DC setting. Should I assume the 600V is the one I should use?

Also, does it matter which probe is connected to which side of the capacitor, or is it interchangeable?

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Re: Artist seeking to tinker with electronics safely

Thanks for the words of advice. I dont see myself graduating to larger devices, I'm only looking for artistic inspiration afterall. I'm also looking for things that haver interesting moving internal parts, not just circuit boards- that's why I went with VCRs to start.

I'll check out electroboom, thanks!

Re: Artist seeking to tinker with electronics safely

Thanks for that info! Any particular kind of gloves I should be using? When I tried to google that question the results I was seeing were like $500 gloves for high voltage work...

And as far as the machines i'm going to disassemble, Goodwill keeps them on a shelf with electrical outlets nearby so people can test them before purchasing, so they could have been powered on as recently as i purchased them, but they've been sitting on my garage workbench unpowered for a month.

Howdy folks! I'm an artist in the video game industry, and my job entails making a lot of mechanical and sci fi assets. I thought it might be a good practice to start disassembling some electronics to be more familiar with how [I]real[/I] electronics are manufactured and assembled, which is how i found my way to these forums.

When I started researching what tools I might need, I quickly encountered the warning "Some devices can maintain a potentially lethal charge in their capacitors, even up to years after last being powered on", which was enough of a scary thought for...

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Hello- My name's Taylor, I'm an artist in the video game industry and I found my way to these forums out of a curiosity for studying the mechanical guts of of electronics for artistic purposes...