Ultracaps? Oh sweat light. Some of those things are measured in double and triple digit farads, and have discharge times near enough to zero that if you ground one, the cloud of vapor that used to be you will flash into plasma!

Yeah, I'm exagerating a little, but seriously, those things scare me. They make the monsters in a cathode ray display look like a kids toy, and one of those once tossed me a few feet. I dont' try to fix monitors any more. Literally tens of thousands of watts, it is a canned lightening bolt. I'm not sure if I'd rather have those or blasting caps in my car. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />