>Just be sure that you have discharged the tube before even going near it > >Steve Greer > Just to make sure this won't go on and on as it does every six weeks or so on this list, including questions for a useless discharge tool et cetera: The thick (mostly red) wire going to the "suction cup" is the anode connection. The high voltage already mentioned in this thread, about 9000 Volts in Compacts, plays a role only in SEs and earlier models. From the original SE/30 on the flyback transformer had a built-in "bleeder" resistor that took care of the remaining high voltage, so you were safe a couple of minutes after switching the Mac off. The only catch with SE/30s is that there were many SEs that were converted to SE/30s just by switching the mainboard and the floppy drive, keeping the analog board with the flyback without bleeder in place. (To make sure what you have in your SE/30 compare the flyback's model number with the Repair Mac website http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html) . But in any model after the SE/30 you can count on the bleeder resistor to do its work and you are safe (SE analog bords don't fit a Classic, Classic II or CC). Anyway, the remaining energy in an SE for instance won't kill anybody except for a mosquito or the like; a human would have a short displeasing feeling, maybe a minute burn mark, and that's about it. A Compact as a killer shocker is an urban legend, no more. A TV or a really big screen is another story. As Bill Brown once told the list, you can calculate about 1000 V for every inch of screen diagonal. 9000 Volts in a Compact seem to be quite a lot, but hey, it's just a remaining anode tension with minimal amperage that discharges by itself in 2 or three days. Nothing to be specially afraid of if you have other business to do in a Compact. As someone put it on the list, "just steer clear of the red suction cup and you're ok". If you have to mess with the anode cup and it's an SE or earlier or an SE/30 of unclear descendance, let it sit for two days and that's it. Reading the compacts chapters in the pickle's FAQ at http://macfaq.org/index.shtml will give you a lot more background info. Just my last two cents.
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