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Don’t touch the inside of a psu, this can kill you very rapidly and you’ll feel it the whole time.
Gotta love that classic "Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time"
Not usually... I mean please do read up/watch some youtube videos on electronic repair safety, but for the most part the power supply of a ps1 lives in the unpleasant shock realm of zapping power.
Talk like this scares people away from doing their own repairs.
From what I can tell, there’s only one 200V cap in a PS1, so as long as you don’t short that you’ll be fine.
I still caution against the advice of feeling open electrical components to find problems. Just use a multimeter. You short something with a meter and you just need new leads, short something spicy with your fingers and you could either get a nasty sting, or stop your heart. The risk/reward on that seems a little off.
When trouble shooting sometimes chips, caps or resistors can get much hotter than surrounds parts. It can let you know to inspect that part for replacement.
Sure don’t grab leads with your fingers but sometimes you can tell something like a voltage regulator is malfunctioning because it just gets really hot.
I mean you can just use an IR camera but most people don’t have one.