"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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I got the impression he wanted to short the ht out to make it safe though.

Shorting out the HT is a pretty drastic thing to do! Guaranteed to wreck the
relay that does it and the smoothing capacitors.

I suspect he intends to use the relay connect a resistor across the HT to
discharge the capacitors. But such a resistor can be left permanently
connected at the cost of a few wasted milliamps of HT current.

David.