Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] cheap monitors?

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is not entirely true.  Please be careful to watch out for the flyback transformer (if you don't know what one is you shouldn't be in the monitor).  Touching this WILL KILL YOU. 

-n8

On Sunday, March 4, 2001, at 10:13 AM, Aaron Littich wrote:

That "WARNING THERE ARE HIGH VOLTAGES
> INSIDE YOUR MONITOR!!!  BE VERY, VERY AFRAID!!!"
label means all you have to do is look out for large
capacitors. You can make it safe by discharging them,
which you cand do by just shorting them out. That
neutralizes the charge stored on the plates.



--- Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Obviously my highly intelligent friend Igor is a
> little sleepy today, because he forgot to include
> the standard: "WARNING THERE ARE HIGH VOLTAGES
> INSIDE YOUR MONITOR!!!  BE VERY, VERY AFRAID!!!".
> 
> And Igor - I'm not being sarcastic about the
> intelligent part - you regularly amaze me with the
> random stuff you seem to know about...
> 
> -n8
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 2, 2001, at 05:12 PM, Igor Izyumin
> Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Friday 02 March 2001 08:40, Spurling, Shannon 
> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. I know
> they refurbish stuff like
> > that all the time, so it has to kind of be worth
> it in some cases. Problem
> > is, once some shops start tacking on the labor and
> parts, you might as well
> > get a new one. I already used my tax refund on a
> refurb 20" sun monitor
> > with a regular VGA connector on it. It's a
> beautiful monitor. I just hate
> > to throw out a perfectly good 17" with a bad gun.
> It mostly works. It just
> > looks really ugly. :-)
> I'd try fixing it before I throw it away.  Chances
> are, something's not 
> making contact on that little PCB that connects to
> the tube.  I had to touch 
> up some of the soldering on it on one of my monitors
> - the tube was 
> occasionally (once or twice a day) turning off and
> then right back on.  Maybe 
> it's something like that in your case, too.  If you
> don't want to fix it 
> yourself, give it somebody who will.  Or read
> repairfaq.org and fix it 
> yourself.
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