b spake thus:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
Meat Plow spake thus:
So what, pray tell, is a "G-2" range? Don't worry; I know all about
resistors, and high voltages, and shocks, and all that. No need to
nanny-state me with all the dire warnings.
So you know all about CRT devices but don't know about the CRT's g2 grid?
The warnings are for your saftey and the potential saftey of others
reading these threads.
No, I had never heard that term before. I do know about CRTs (not *all*
about them, obviously), but I'm not in the TV repair business and don't
know all the jargon. So sue me.
By the way, I did look up "G2" on Google, and discovered that it seems
to indicate a grid (2nd grid, I'm assuming) on vacuum tubes in general,
not just CRTs; found references to 6550s and such.
But I do know all about high voltages, and know enough to be damn
careful with the innards of any TV set or monitor. The two aren't
mutually exclusive, you know, so you can lay off your warnings, as
well-intentioned as they may be.
this thread is starting to sound like deja vu-....
see
:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.e...02d1d9681a4d1e
from post number 24 on.
This is really, really annoying.
What are you, the HV police? A new extension of the nanny state, here to
tell us to behave like good children and never, ever touch the insides
of a TV until we've gotten our PhD in Electronical Fixin' Stuff?
Fergodsakes; OK, I know there are bozos out there who don't know about
this stuff. I DO. I do know that capacitors (and even picture tubes
*acting* as capacitors) can store lethal charges. I know it's very easy
to get zapped mucking around in the innards of a TV or monitor. OK? Got
it? So lay off.
By the way, all of this is completely unnecessary, as you'd know if you
read my post above where I explained that I was able to fix this by
using one of the built-in OSD functions. Monitor looks just peachy now,
thank you very much.
(I'd still like to know just what that function does, but I don't ever
expect to get that information here.)
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