servicing terminals/monitors

[james at jdfogg.com]

> If it's been sitting for a month, you're probably good. I've never seen
> one hold a charge that long.
>
> In all honesty the hype and the fear of working on monitors is especially
> overrated. Yeah, there's thousands of volts in there. If you get bitten by
> it, it'll hurt like hell. But it's not going to kill you. And monochrome
> terminals use a lower high voltage than the average color television.

I would never trust a CRT to discharge. I've been bit by TV's that were in
the junkyard (yes, I was scavenging tubes). Yes, many designs have bleeder
resistors, but do you really want to trust them? And yes, it can kill. A
voltage induced cardiac arrhythmia doesn't require much of a zap.