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The red suction cap just fell off!!!!
lettuce:
Yeah im still here, i knew that if theres one think u dont touch on a TV/Monitor its the suction cap!. I swear i did not knock it of, i would have noticed surley
ChadTower:
It's not a suction cup.
MonitorGuru:
> "My dad just did it, earth the screw driver and placed it over the hole, no flash or cracking noise,"
REREAD THE DISCHARGING / MONITOR FAQ. EARTH HAS *NOTHING* TO DO WITH DISCHARGING A TUBE
If you didn't get a shock reconnecting the anode wire consider yourself DANG lucky.
It seems with monitors either people don't read at all, read things that arn't there (those that think you need to discharge if you are just removing the entire monitor) or assume things that make no sense.
I've said it in other threads, and the Discharging FAQ, but here goes again:
EARTH GROUND has NOTHING to do with a monitor tube. NOTHING.
Just like the battery in your car CANNOT be shorted by connecting either terminal to a wire stuck in the earth, the same thing goes for a CRT.
You must short the inside of the tube to the outside of the tube. Nothing more, nothing less. This will discharge it.
lettuce:
--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on July 25, 2005, 04:31:23 pm ---> "My dad just did it, earth the screw driver and placed it over the hole,
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MonitorGuru:
The wire across the tube IS the ground wire, but has NOTHING to do with EARTH. Stating Earth fully implies EARTH GROUND in AC terms. Stating Ground implies the "other end" of a DC connection, where in this case, the anode is one end, and the ground wire on the outside of the tube is the other.
It fell off because it was probably tugged on at some point allowing at least one of the pins to slip, while the other hung on until it was shaken again (even by playing). Lucky it didn't come off while it was playing as 30,000 volts could have been sent to numerous places within the monitor / cabinet.
Before reattaching always spread out the pins as wide as possible (and check for any metal failure from bending) so that it will clip securely. It should be hard, but not difficult to clip in. Put one end in, holding the grey cup at an angle and use the still frame-grounded screwdriver to gently press the other side in while you press the cap on.