Re: How to open composite monitor //e

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-mir-this>]

 To: Michael Black
Michael Black wrote:
> The highest voltage is on what looks like a suction cup on the side of
> the picture tube.  Shorting that to ground will get rid of the worst,
> take a needle, solder a good piece of wire to it, tape the needle to a 
> dry stick, with the other end of the wire going to the chassis of the 
> monitor.
> Slip the needle under the "suction cup" (it really isn't it's just a 
> rubber disk that well covers the actual high voltage contacts that insert
> into a well in the picture tube).  If you're lucky, there should be a 
> spark (I say lucky since it proves that you've properly made contact
> with the contacts underneath, but if there's no spark, it could mean
> the voltage has already dissipated, or that you didn't make proper 
> contact).

You might want to add that the monitor should be plugged in to make sure 
the ground prong of the power cord, which is connected to the chassis of 
the monitor, is actually connected to ground.  Otherwise, you might not 
discharge anything and might even add a charge to the chassis.  Once it 
is discharged you can unplug the monitor.

Another option is to connect the wire to ground some other way other 
than using the chassis of the monitor.  I've used a banana plug on the 
end of a wire plugged into the ground prong hole of an outlet to make 
that connection before.