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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: FrizzleFried on December 14, 2006, 08:56:52 pm
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OK...so I have a monitor on a work bench...not plugged in to anything. I go to discharge the monitor (which last ran last night) to the chassis and I get nothing...not a pop...not a tick...nothing.
Even though the monitor isn't hooked to anything...I am still discharging to ground when I discharge to the frame...right? I mean this seems like a stupid question...but I want to be 100% sure before I stick my finders near the anode hole.
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What do you mean, discharge to ground?
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Discharge the monitor tube to the chassis....so I can remove the anode without electrocuting myself.
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It's actually a pretty stupid question being that I've discharged monitors sitting in cabinets that were unplugged and what is the difference if they are sitting in a wooden cabinet or sitting on a wooden work bench...but you know...it helps me to work things out when I write them down and read them over and over again...
;D
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If you're going to pop off the anode, discharge if it makes you feel better.
Me? I don't if it's been off for a while.
I damn well do if I go to put it back *on*, however. Getting the clip off is easy; putting it back on often requires being able to see what I'm doing, so I fold back the cap. Then I use my discharge tool, discharge the tube, then use the screwdriver tip to compress the anode spring back into the tube.
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`tis done....and I lived....so I MUST be doing something right.