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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I did that once.... It did not throw me back, but I yanked my arm back real hard and swore like a pirate for a moment.
To be clear what you describe would be discharging the HV of a CRT through ones body. Normal safe discharging is when one takes a wire connects one end to the TV's chassis ground and the other to a plastic handle screw driver's metal shaft, then slip the driver under the suction cup untill you hear a electric snappping sound and or hit metal. Once one has done the screw driver trick one can SAFELY pull the HV lead and suction cup off.
If one does it wrong one can get zapped just the same as I was. However the HV can also "recover". I have a 1964 Silvertone roundy that likes to do that. I would pull the chassis do some work on it, and put the chassis back to test repeatedly. To pull the chassis I had to disconnect the HV lead (which meant I had to discharge it first) by the time I would put the chassis back (and likely much sooner) the CRT HV cup was back to having HV on it, and would give me a good ZAP when I reconnected the HV lead. I initially took it as a fluke, then got real mad when it kept happening. And I was beginning to think the damn thing was possessed! I ended up leaving a jumper from the cup to CRT ground in place when ever the chassis was out and that ended that.
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Thanks, Tom. On You Tube, I've viewed a lot of the correct ways to discharge the HV of a CRT. I was curious about how severe an incorrect discharge would be. I'd like a situation where the jolt might be enough to knock the woman over so she could drop the gun in her other hand. What if she wore a ring and it touched the CRT as she was pulling the lead? A different result maybe?