>Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:08:36 -0600
>From: Philip Stortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>that's not going to help if the bleed resistor fails, i've worked on a
>tv (actually several) that didn't have bleed resistors (i think it was
>rca that was bad about that for awhile, but it could have been another
>brand, in any case, tv's of some brands from a certain time span never
>have bleed resistors!), it had been in the shop for good month without
>being plugged in, when i shorted the second anode to ground it still
>gave a fully fearsome snap.
The same story is true here. Specifically, I was working on a
CTC-175 chassis (I'm hazy on whether CTC is correct, but it was one
of the 175's with the problematical tuner ground solder and the
serial EEPROM). The thing had been sitting for days and it still
gave a big spark when I discharged it.
Jeff Walther
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