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by arfink » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:28 pm
Well, you wouldn't need a pro to do it, you could. You'd just have to be careful about not getting yourself mixed up with the anode of the tube, which by the way, is under a rubber boot. All you'd need to do is pull the PCB's you wouldn't need to mess with the tube itself. The power supply caps are possibly more dangerous to deal with than the monitor if you don't know what you're doing, because the monitor is only dangerous if you don't discharge the anode properly. The caps are harder to discharge, and although they hold less voltage than the CRT, they hold a lot more amps, and the amps are what kills. High voltage just hurts like the dickens, high amperage kills. People can survive lightning, and that's because it's high voltage and low amperage. People don't survive mix-ups with power lines, because that's really high amperage with a fairly low voltage.
Emulation isn't accurate. There is no substitute for real hardware!
