Re: TECH: V2000 discharge

ok.. i just checked...

RadioShack (squirm) has 100K 1/2 watt resistors for $1 a piece. Plastic
handled screw driver at my local Dollar Store for (you guessed it) $1 (ok..
it's RIGHT next door to the RadioShack). Shrink tubing at RS for $3. total
(not including wire) is $14 for a safe discharge tool.

A new HV diode for a G5 or V2000 from Bob Roberts is $15 + $6 shipping

Seems like it pays to be safe (although the lightning bolt is always fun to
watch... bring's me back to my youth when my father set up a Jacobs ladder
and let us play with it (ok... so it was a stupid thing to give a 12 year
old kid a 20K voltage source and let him stick stuff between the wires and
experiment! Someone should have called DYFS! Still... it was fun :) ).

steve

"Taxman" <NOSPAMdavid.tkacs@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:_5RKe.427$bp5.301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am going with Mark on this one. What do ten 100K resistors cost? I know
> a V2000 HV diode goes for $12 and up.
>
> Do it right, don't do it over - Dave
>
>
> "Mark C. Spaeth" <mspaeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:42fb6c61$0$572$b45e6eb0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Steve Muccione <home*DOT*muccione@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> : Ok... here's the question.. how important is it to have an inline
> resistor
>> : when discharging a V2000? I've never used one for raster monitors, but
> the
>> : B&W vector faq on ionpool says the inline diode in the second anode
>> wire
>> : will get fried if you discharge without current limiting... is this
>> true
> or
>> : just being overly cautious?
>>
>>
>> If you don't care about blowing up the HV diode, it's not important =-P
>>
>> --
>> Mark Spaeth mspaeth@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> 50 Vassar St., #38.265 mspaeth@xxxxxxx
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> (617) 452-2354 http://rgvac.978.org/~mspaeth
>>
>
>


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