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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: jee park on June 17, 2002, 01:08:29 pm

Title: prob dumb question
Post by: jee park on June 17, 2002, 01:08:29 pm

uh, are there certain monitors  that dont need discharging? I grounded a screwdriver and stuck it into the rubber plug on the back of a arcade monitor, making sure I hit the prongs...but I didnt get any discharge. No arc....wtf?
is this possibly? I dont want to take the monitor out of the cabinet until its properly discharged.....am i missing something?

Title: Re: prob dumb question
Post by: neuromancer on June 17, 2002, 01:32:21 pm

My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that some new TV sets are self discharging. If you have an arcade monitor, I don't think any of them self discharge, but all monitors (actually, all capacitors) will eventually discharge into the air or something.

I read on rgvac that in two days a picture tube will usually discharge. Also, sometimes they don't make any noise when they discharge.

Having never discharged a monitor myself, I highly recommend you read this, and anything else you can find on the subject.

http://www.arcadecontrols.speedhost.com/files/Miscellaneous/crtfaq.htm

bob