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- From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
- Subject: Re: Help! My friends 8512 PS/2 VGA monitor fried!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.171407.10593@honte.uleth.ca>
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- Organization: University of Lethbridge
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:14:07 GMT
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- There is one think possible that might be fixable by your friend, but
- this would have been more likely in the first phase than in the
- grey smoke phase. All monitors generate 20 kv or so to drive the
- crt. This generates a big static field around to tube, which can
- attract large amounts of dust. It is possible that the high voltage
- has found a conducting path through some of this grunge. This
- might have been corrected by some careful cleaning, but if this
- path has melted something thereafter, well...
-
- Alternatively, you might have fried your flyback transformer.
- Norm Buchignani/University of Lethbridge/BUCHIGNANI@HG.ULETH.CA
- "If we have been accustomed to deplore the spectacle...of a workman occupied
- during his whole life in nothing else but the making of knife-handles or pins'
- heads, we may find something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in
- the exclusive employment of a human brain in resolving some equations, or in
- classifying insects. [This] occasions a miserable indifference about the
- general course of human affairs, as long as there are equations to solve and
- pins to manufacture." Auguste Comte
-