On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Can I safely disconnect the plug at the end of the CRT neck without discharging?
My opinion is NO! Ian?
It's perfectly safe to disconnect that. That's not in any way connected to the second anode.
Also is the best place to clip onto the implosion bracket since the ADM doesn’t really have a metal chassis?
Not know much about the bracket. I can't say. We had our ground on a know cold water pipe.
The cold water pipe is not part of the circuit, or even the terminal. Try draining a car battery by connecting the positive terminal to the cold water pipe. You're not "grounding", the tube, you're discharging it. You have to short out the capacitor formed by the picture tube itself. Connecting the clip to some random other external ground might do something, you might get a spark, but since there's no complete circuit, you haven't fully discharged it. That's a really unsafe thing to attempt to do. -Ian