9 May
2016
9 May
'16
3:46 p.m.
On 09/05/2016 22:21, "Mouse" <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
Not correct so much as to say what's in the official DEC docs for working on
these things where they show a line drawing of a standard screwdriver with a
ground wire attached. My own discharge tool is a big plastic handled flat
blade with ground wire and croc clip, long may it make me nervous when using
it.
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2. Make darn
sure you discharge the tube before you work on it.
I've seen it said that discharging with a very low resistance path -
like a piece of wire - can damage things. I don't know how much risk
there really is, but I would tend do something like inserting a 100K or
1M resistor in the path to ground. The capacitance of the tube is low
enough that the time constant is pretty low even with a resistor that
high.
If I'm off base, I'm sure someone will correct me!