Discharging a VT100 CRT

[Chuck Guzis]

On 11/10/2005 at 4:50 PM Allison wrote:

>The cap I'd likely hunt around for a junk radio or computer monitor
>chassis and pull it from there.

Largely OT:  Another place to look is in the bases of compact
fluorescents-incandescent lamp substitutes.  In the US, you can usually
find a couple of 22 or 33 ufd @ 200v caps, a bunch of diodes and
miscellaneous small caps, a small toroid and two TO-220 power transistors
of the MJE13005 variety.  The latter can be very useful for deflection or
switching PSU replacements as they're rated at 4A/300-400v with a t(f) of
less than a microsecond.

Cheers,
Chuck