>>1478964>For 450V caps, I don't want to risk it.With alligator clips and a resistor, you can discharge the capacitors as long as you are very careful to not touch anything else. If you do, that voltage will travel thru the circuit board and zzZAP other parts dead. And if you take it to a TV shop to discharge them, if they make a mistake and zap parts, they will never admit to it.
The resistance should be sized so that it doesn't get too hot from the current if you are using a cheapie 1/2 watt standard 10% tolerance resistor. The resistor should also have a low enough resistance to finish discharing the capacitor as its voltage droops. For example, for a capacitor charged to 450 volts, when using a 1/2 watt resistor, that would be 405K ohms. But you can improve the heat problem by putting several smaller resistors in series to spread the heat load.
