On 12 Mar 00 at 14:37, Roger Turk wrote:
>>This reminds me of two things: In the early days of color TV, RCA was using
>>a poor grade of solder in the pins on their tubes which would break down
>>after a couple of years. An *honest* repairman told me that more new tubes
>>were sold when all they needed to do was sweat in a good grade of solder,
>>which he did on site for only the charge for a service call.
I have also seen this failure on the flyback transformers of some
monitors and TV's and it is worth the few minutes it takes to check
for this.
>>The second thing that I am reminded of is when I was in the U.S. Navy and
>>going to Radar School. We were cautioned that there were high voltage
>>capacitors in the radar equipment that did not always discharge when the
>>equipment was shut down and that before going into any piece of radar, we
>>should ground out all capacitors with a grounding rod and go over all
>>visible connections before we cautiously entered the equipment. They had
>>one piece of equipment which was set up so the capacitors would not
>>discharge so that we could see how much zap the capacitors held. That
>>demonstration made a believer out of me such that I made a grounding rod and
>>use it religiously whenever I go into any piece of electronic equipment.
I bet they taught you try to keep one hand in your pocket so the
charge would (hopefully) not make it's primary path through the
cardiac area.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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