RE: Monitor Discharging

I agree. I had a monitor apart the other night, and then put it back
together and saw the shock as I got the Anode cup near the monitor. This
was after I had completely discharged the tube. I was holding onto the
rubber, and avoided that shock (lucky), but was still a bit surprised. I
think I am going to take an old anode wire and hook a clip to the end of it
and use that to keep the monitor discharged now.
John

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John Butler
Technology Support Analyst
Counseling and Consultation
Arizona State University
480-965-6451

                -----Original Message-----
                From: ddhumphr [mailto:david@bbn.com]
                Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 10:05 AM
                To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
                Subject: Re: Monitor Discharging

                Well I can vouch for John's note below. I completely
discharged my monitor to
                the frame last night, pulled the deflection circuitry and
worked on it (yet
                again) and went to pop it back in again after about 40
minutes. I STILL got
                the zap (though not as badly as on a fully charged tube).
One note I would
                make, however, is that a jumper to the anode cup doesn't
really make a lot of
                sense to me. I *believe* that the charge is kept in the
tube itself, not in
                the HV flyback circuitry, so the jumper would have to be
somehow connected to
                the tube, and not the anode cup...

                Ace
                Ni-Wumpf Ltd.

                John Robertson wrote:

> ... After the HV lead is removed, I like to leave a jumper
lead
> connecting the anode cup to the chassis for a while to
clean up any
> residual charge.
>
Received on Thu Dec 9 11:57:08 1999