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| NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 06, 2005, 09:33:51 pm ---Ok, you only discharge monitors if you have to take the Anode cap off, and that is the ONLY reason. --- End quote --- I'm in the "better safe, than sorry" camp on this one. While I will admit that I don't discharge them when swapping/moving/rotating, I wouldn't recommend that to someone else. I will discharge them if they are going to sit uncased though. I don't want a curious kid/cat/dog/etc.... deciding to see what's under the big rubber suction cup. I was doing some rewiring on my Radical Radial the other night, and didn't realize the cat was in the garage until she stuck her head into the cab from the back side, right near the neckboard. I'm guessing fried-cat-smell is even harder to get out of a cabinet than smoke-smell. |
| paigeoliver:
It is more dangerous to go around randomly discharging monitors that aren't being serviced than it is not to do so. Also, in all reality the sucker isn't going to be holding a charge if it hasn't been on for a few days. Most of the arcade guys I know will rip the anode cap off a monitor that has been sitting without even a second thought about it. The REAL issue with monitors out of the cabinet isn't the anode cap, it is accidently bumping the neckboard and thus breaking the neck. |
| Q*Bert_OP:
In some of the newer Midway games manuals (crusin exotica, the grid, etc.) they say before you remove the monitor, discharge the monitor first. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
THEY say that for exactly the same reason I said that. It's OK to remove charged monitors yourself (if you know what you're doing); but you can't control how others do it, so you don't want to recommend it. |
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