Well, TheHoss summed it up the best and he broke down literally thousands of TV's. He mentioned a few times that at least 48 hours and most or all voltage should be bled off. I think your safe with a...
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Well, TheHoss summed it up the best and he broke down literally thousands of TV's. He mentioned a few times that at least 48 hours and most or all voltage should be bled off. I think your safe with a...
My apologizies to elitelawnteam1 for jumping to conclusions.
You gave us a glimpse of how you do things, you should really rethink that. Only takes about a minute longer to do it the right way.
What the crap is a sludge, do you have sludge in your engine?? Maybe it's time for an oil change.
If your talking about smashing tubes, Please DON"T. You are contaminating the environment doing...
It is the best "lesson" someone can learn without the pain, and very well told.
Your wish is my command, Sorry Hoss but I was ordered,,,,LOL
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m600/thehoss1/Snapbucket/DA837F2C-orig.jpg
I'm not trying to teach an electronics class, I'm just trying to keep some new-bee's safe so they don't have to go thru what Hoss did. You do it your way and I'll do what I've done for over 20 years...
Electric will head towards an earth ground before anything else. You are just giving it a path of least resistance, being that copper wire is a good conductor. I seen the after effects of a bolt of...
Scrapside actually had a really good idea, that I have seen used before in TV repair shops. You could put up a wall box and ground it to a 4 foot ground rod outside the shop where you tear down...
OH MY,, And we're not in Kansas anymore. LOL
There is a couple of good idea's as far as discharging the tv's further up in this thread. Make or buy a ground strap, or use a screwdriver or insulated sidecutters and discharge the bigger...
It depends if the bleed off resistors are still working and still intact on the boards, do you want to bet your life on it???
Better safe than sorry, and it only takes an extra 30 seconds to make...
Dee, Like I said up in the other post,,
What happened to Hoss is kinda rare. Thank god he can tell all of us about it,,,Or make yourself a groundstrap, you could even put a computer wrist strap on...
Hoss, yes you can clamp to the tailgate or even to a metal brace inside the tv chassis, the electricity wants to go to a metal ground even if it has to go thru you to get there. Vcr's and other...
The real lesson to be learned is; and I've stated it a couple times in different threads but always take an insulated screwdriver with at least a 6" or 8" shaft and short it across anything suspect...
