There is something I hadn't considered: Most of the capacitance is in the
tube, not the "power supply".
When we discharge a tube, we are discharging just that the tube, not through
the diode. Now, the power supply may have a little tiny bit of capacitance
on the output which is in series with a diode. Someone should measure this.
The discharge current through the diode is therefore much, much less than
the total discharge current. This is most likely why the diodes don't blow
out all the time when we discharge our monitors.
Using a resistor is still probably a good idea, but we probably don't need
to be paranoid about it.
Feel free to hachet my statements if need be.
:-) James
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