fwcrawford
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You are correct… capacitors do store energy…. Could be something like that going on in my case, but he stated that his lights stays on with no batteries… not sure how long… mine merely lights up for an instant.So, I am not an electronics engineer, but have had some basic electronics training many, many years ago. What if there is a 'capacitor' of some type on the circuit card and/or in modern terms, designed into the die for the processor. From what I remember, one of the functions of a capacitor is to store up electric current until a gateway (read as diode) allows the current to proceed. My guess then, is that powering off still leaves a bit of current not yet discharged from said capacitor. I know this happens because if you take the back off your television or computer monitor and while working happen to touch the capacitor, it is going to shock the living daylights out of you. I did this once while working on a friends TV and I shot back about 3 feet into the wall before falling down. I told him the TV cannot be fixed
Or... what if the operator has had their clock reset by electrical charges induced from the detector and/or 'spirits'? Would the operator then be the 'haunted one'? I dun no.
Still seems odd though that the light would come on at all… I could see getting shocked as what happened to you because you completed the circuit by being grounded in some way.
BTW… I am not an electronics whiz either, but have been shocked a few times…
