> On May 9, 2019, at 7:08 PM, gregebert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Connecting a resistor from the AC neutral to the chassis was done on many TV > sets from the 1960's; RCA and Zenith had a 22meg resistor for bleeding-away > charge on the metal chassis. And this was NOT one of the infamous hot-chassis > sets. I suspect it had to do with exposed metal parts getting capacitively > charged via the picture tube; with the resistor the current was very small > (well-below threshold of sensation) even if hot and neutral got swapped.
I'm guessing we're both old enough to remember cheater cords? When my dad was a teenager my grandfather serviced TV sets. Naturally he has lots of stories about walking into someone's living room and knowing instantly which tube was bad. He later became a banker and repo-ed lots of cars but his first time was when he was only 16 or 17. It was a TV antenna. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... beams...in the dark in the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain." — Roy Batty, Blade Runner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CB6D28B5-2DCD-43DB-9199-A10EFCE301F4%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
