Vision Pro ground wires important?

[markymarky99]

Hi, The Vision Pro monitors I receive from Happcontrols have 4 black ground wires running from the chassis to the screws on the monitor frame.  Beings I always have to remove the monitor from the HAPP frame to use in the old frame of whatever game it is I'm rebuilding, these 4 wires are a pain in the rear.  One of them just wedged itself without me knowing next to a very hot part of the chassis , melted, then ruined my monitor.  My questions is.  CAN I SIMPLY SNIP THESE WIRES DOWN AT THE CHASSIS BOARD?  What exactly is there function, and why in the hell doesn't VISION PRO devise a better way of wiring their monitors to avoid the accident that just occurred to me?  Apparently, they believe their monitor's will simply fit in everyone's arcade machine, UGH!!!  I'm sure most of us out there, end up removing new monitor's from their frames. 

[Ken Layton]

Happ's Vision Pro 2 series of monitors are actually made by Tovis (www.tovism.com).

All those ground wires are very important. Since these monitors do not need an isolation transformer these wires are both the ground return line for the picture tube circuit AND the safety frame ground. Don't remove/disable any of them. Why don't you simply re-route the wires away from heat producing parts and/or lengthen that wire? The monitor manufacturer never anticipated anyone removing their chassis from their monitors to use on another frame.