Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SM124 monichrome monitor problem... Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 15:25:24 GMT References: <1991Jan24.221801.13560@convex.com> <1991Jan29.110121.10806@actrix.gen.nz> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 34 In article <1991Jan29.110121.10806@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes: ><6985@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <232@rosie.NeXT.COM> >Sender: >Followup-To: >Distribution:world >Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand >Keywords: >Comment-To: sstreep@next.com > >Well if the Monitors that I have touched had that sort of voltage I >should have been dead many times, The Voltage in a Monitor is not that >Dangerous, it only supplies about 500ua, and the Votage in a Colour >monitors is about 25KV, and about 12KV in a Mono Monitor, the safe bet >it to allways put one hand in your pocket, the High Votage in the >monitors, is fully insulated, so there no real problem... When dealing with high voltage equipment the potential for shock IS REAL. But there are some very high voltage capacitors that store a whole hell of a lot of charge. Enough so to knock you flat on your arse. Before you stick you hand in a monitor ground those caps to bleed off that charge. This is assuming you are working on an unpluged monitor. If it is not unpluged then don't open it up unless you know what the hell you are doing. > >-- >Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand... -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */