> Let's say if by accident my hand brushed up against the neck of the > CRT, would I get a shock?
As long as you aren't working on the thing with power on, you're fine. There are no exposed high-voltage parts on the crt. All the HV is *very* well insulated. That's why you should ignore the standard advice to routinely discharge a compact mac's crt. You have to expose yourself to the HV nodes to discharge, and that just doesn't make sense if you're not going to do any work on the HV circuitry. > How long should I wait for the CRT to discharge on its own if I don't > use a tool? Leave it unplugged overnight. Even without the fabled "bleeder resistor" in the flyback transformer, the crt will discharge enough. Really, the compact mac's cute little crt is not a thing to be feared. :-) Don't allow the irrational (well-meaning, yes, but still irrational) warnings of others frighten you away from fixing these little guys. I hate to see a compact mac needlessly turn into landfill. --Cheers, Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Center for Integrated Systems, CIS-205 420 Via Palou Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4070 http://www-smirc.stanford.edu 650-725-3709 voice, -3383 fax -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
