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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1960 Monitor - Strange Behaviour
- Date: 13 Jan 96 00:34:07 +0500
- Organization: MountainNet, Inc. Morgantown WV 800.444.1458
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- Well, for starters, when you panic'ed and shut the monitor down the first
- time, it was obviously in the middle of its "degaussing" routine, an
- operation that when everything is cold, forces the monitors powerline draw
- thru a set of coils wrapped around the front of the tube. Under normal
- conditions, this is timed and throttled down to zero current by a thermal
- device that gradually bypasses the coil as it heats. Its this slow fade to
- zero (10 to 15 secs) that demagnetizes the tube, rendering it relatively
- insensitive to its orientation to the ambient magnetic field of the earth
- and or the magnetic leakage from the usual $.37 speaker used in the same
- box.
-
- Your panic shutdown interrupted the current at one of its current peaks
- (its an alternating current just like your powerline) leaving the steel
- mask assembly located about 1 cm inside the glass heavily magnetized. You
- saw the results. Leaving it off for 10 mins or so resets that thermal
- device by allowing it to cool, so the next time the process repeated itself
- correctly, demagnetizing the tubes metallics. Normal operation miraculously
- restored!
-
- Solution to the popping? Open it up and blow the dirt and dust out with an
- air hose, about 100 psi from 10 cm is about right, unless all you've got is
- an %^&$#@ (OSHA) air nozzle, in which case a *fresh, soft bristled* paint
- brush may be use to help dislodge it while you blow. It doesn't have to be
- 'lox clean' except right around the rubberized wire fitting on the side or
- top of the tube. This area should be pretty clean, but don't attempt to
- remove that connection unless you are a technician familiar with both the
- hazzards and removal methods. You could get a potentially lethal shock
- from it, even if the monitor has been off for days! You could also use a
- vacuum cleaner, but I don't recommend it very highly, too much damage has
- been done by the crevise tool when applied with too much exhuberance. And
- that little, usually round sucker brush is still 10x bigger than need be,
- so won't let you get to where you need to. Air is better, preferably
- outside so you don't have the mess to clean up on that beige rug!
-
- Cheers
-
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