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> richard <> wrote:
>
>>> Wow... WTF dude.. Only a week eh? Wow..
>
>> Well when you see a guy discharge an unplugged tv set, you'll
>> understand.
>> Specially when he's doing it with his bare hand on that coil.
>> It takes no less than 3 full days for the capacitors to fully
>> discharge. I've been kicked by that coil so I know what it feels like.
>> Think of how it must feel like to get tasered and you get the idea.
>
> Jesus, you just take a pair of insulated of pliers and pull the plug
> from the monitor and touch it to the TV chasie - Done - it's
> discharged itself, just be sure to unplug the T.V before working on
> it.
>
> I do let it sit an hour or two just incase and make it a habit to
> avoid touching the CRT Tube.
>
> I've worked on a T.V. or two in my time, mostly the old tube type (non
> transistor). and yes I've been tossed against a wall or two in my
> time.
>
>

Isn't it at 1000 volts per inch diagonal (for color)?
So a 24 inch screen would be 24,000 volts!

"RickMerrill" <> wrote in message
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> wrote:
>> richard <> wrote:
>>
>>>> Wow... WTF dude.. Only a week eh? Wow..
>>
>>> Well when you see a guy discharge an unplugged tv set, you'll
>>> understand.
>>> Specially when he's doing it with his bare hand on that coil.
>>> It takes no less than 3 full days for the capacitors to fully
>>> discharge. I've been kicked by that coil so I know what it feels like.
>>> Think of how it must feel like to get tasered and you get the idea.
>>
>> Jesus, you just take a pair of insulated of pliers and pull the plug
>> from the monitor and touch it to the TV chasie - Done - it's
>> discharged itself, just be sure to unplug the T.V before working on
>> it.
>>
>> I do let it sit an hour or two just incase and make it a habit to
>> avoid touching the CRT Tube.
>>
>> I've worked on a T.V. or two in my time, mostly the old tube type (non
>> transistor). and yes I've been tossed against a wall or two in my
>> time.
>>
>>
>
> Isn't it at 1000 volts per inch diagonal (for color)?
> So a 24 inch screen would be 24,000 volts!
>

but very low current...several milliamps. When I was in electronics school
back in the 1950's we would grab the TV chassis with one hand to get a good
ground and then touch the anode cap of the 1B3 hv recifier firmly with a
bare pliers. If you made a good solid connection you would barely feel it
since your body resistance would load down the HV oscillator and the HV
would quit. Newbies who gave it just a gentle touch were in for a good shock
and the pliers usually went flying out of their hand.