Quote Originally Posted by rodekyll
Sounds like that ballast has a capacitor or condensor (same thing really) to hold a bit of charge with the power off. I'm not gonna disassemble mine to verify that, but a capacitor would be the usual source of a tingle (or jolt, if it's big enough) with the power disconnected.

We used to leave charged capacitors laying around the parts counter with tags reading "do not touch" as a joke. Some kid would pick one up and get bit. The rest of us would laugh our asses off. Those things can hold a charge for days . . .
AHAHAHHAAA!!!!

Hahaqhhaaaaa!!! LOL !!!!

That just brought me back to when I was 15, and worked in a computer company... LOL!!!! The engineers did the same thing... they would watch closely, like in a Discovery-channel documentary, to see if I would pick-up one of those... LOL !!!

I learned after the 1st two...