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| The one real shock I got was when fixing a TV. It was switched off and disconnected, but there are capacitors in any tube screen (including computer monitors) which store high voltage, and I got zapped by that. I've left that to the professionals ever since. | |
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Ouch!
You where very lucky, those things can kill you real quick. Never, ever pull the back off a CRT TV or computer monitor unless you really know what you are doing. I am assuming that the modern LCD versions are safer, but there probably isn't anything in them that you can repair anyway.