Gotta love the vector list...

        People will fall all over themselves to calculate the energy stored in
a charged CRT, or to critique the pricing of an obsolete DAC part, but nobody
could spend 10 secs to tell me whether you can rotate a Tempest monitor
without a cabinet mod or unbolting it from the wooden frame.

        Not that I'm complaining - I know that RGVAC is the place for
banal questions like that, and that vectorlist topics tend to be much more
obscure (that's what makes the list so much fun). But it's still amusing.

                        Drew

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From: "Fish, David" <dfish@bev.etn.com>
To: "'vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu'" <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: RE: Bad monitor discharge instructions
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:22:50 -0500
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> From: Mark Spaeth [mailto:mspaeth@arcade.ne.mediaone.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:03 AM
> To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: Bad monitor discharge instructions
>
> so E = Q * V = C * V^2...
>
> So assuming your .001 F measurement is correct, and using V=20,000
> E = 400,000J Hmmm... that'll keep you warm at night...
>

Hey Mark,

Jeez, you take the 'mit' out of your address and you automatically
became less smart ;-) ;-)

John's measurement was 0.001uF, the 102 was the giveaway. This
gives you 0.4J. The math is left to the student.

Dave
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