Re: Asteroids with no video

Yes, we Americans do need to be warned that coffee is hot, or that eating a
steady diet of McDonalds is not healthy. If I were to write up a vector
repair document that involved coffee, I would probably start off by saying
Coffee is hot, dangerous and even LETHAL!!! That's because somewhere out
there is some idiot that will manage to find a way to send himself to the
hospital because he didn't properly discharge his monitor and he'll have a
lawyer.

I've been zapped plenty of times, by either tubes or charged capacitors. No
big deal. But it's always good practice, in general, to discharge the tube
for several reasons, which have already been discussed here. Personally, I
prefer the slower method of dischararging a monitor with an HV probe and
watch the voltage go down with a digital multimeter. On some monitors
(like the Electrohome G07) you need to discharge them 2 or 3 times.

Matt

> They always makes me laugh, these dreaded HV CAN KILL YOU (vector monitor
> related) warnings :)
> Must be because I'm in Europe and we think that is SOOOOO Us of A. ;).
Here,
> we just take the bugger out and fix it.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sir Poonga" <sirpoonga@hotmail.com>
> To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:31 PM
> Subject: RE: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video
>
>
> > I know Peter said you don't need to discharge the monitor, but everyone
> else
> > I talk to says to.
> >
> > As Peter put it "you dont need to discharge monitors unless your clumsy
or
> > stupid", add to that if you don't know what you are doing. I obviously
> > don't know what I am doing otherwise I would not have posted to this
list.
> > So I am going to discharge it for my own safety.
> >
> > Alright, making the discharge screwdriver resistor thing is neat, but
I'd
> > rather have the right tool already made if it is affordable. I checked
> ebay
> > for HV probe and prices range from $10 to $500. So the question is what
> do
> > I need, what's the difference in price?
> >
> > If it is one that is in the $10-$50 I would rather have the right tool
> than
> > make one. If for $10 I might as well, otherwise it's going to cost $3
for
> > 10 100k resistors, wire, and aligator clip at radioshack. If I made my
> own
> > I'd go the Bob Roberts route and grind the screwdriver so the wire had a
> > good place to clip onto, currently I don't have an extra screwdriver I'd
> do
> > that too so I'd have to buy it. So, if the $10 HV probe is all I need I
> > might as well go that route.
> >
> >
>
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