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DrumAnBass:

Hehe saw your post in craigslist while browsing for arcade games for sale ;-) Probably the first time I have ever seen an ad for someone requesting a monitor discharge...!

BTW - does anyone know how long a monitor can potentially hold a charge? Years?

NightGod:


--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on July 14, 2006, 05:59:52 pm ---Hehe saw your post in craigslist while browsing for arcade games for sale ;-) Probably the first time I have ever seen an ad for someone requesting a monitor discharge...!

BTW - does anyone know how long a monitor can potentially hold a charge? Years?

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I think months is more accurate, but personally I consider any monitor, whether it's been unplugged two minutes or two decades, to be dangerous until discharged. Seriously-its a 5 minute process, max, well worth it to be sure.

tetujin:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 14, 2006, 03:37:41 pm ---If you can't do the discharge yourself you shouldn't be messing with your monitor. 

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and thus my original request:  "i shouldn't be doing this because i don't know enough yet, will someone help me?"

...3rd party observations aside, i got it taken care of by a guy in our building who's handy with this kind of thing.

the reason i was asking was so that i could see someone experienced do it right the first time, as opposed to throwing ---my bottom--- across the room if i'd done it wrong.  now, having watched an EE friend of mine do it, i a.) know how to do it right, and b.) will be able to do it for myself in the future.

dirt:

you are not going to last very long in this hobby if you have to watch someone do something before you atempt it yourself.

Dave_K.:

In all honesty, it will take 2 minutes, and the chances are if the monitor has been unplugged for a couple hours, you won't even see/hear a spark as most bleed off the charge anyway.

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