"Fleetie" wrote in message
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"msg" wrote
Why would you worry about applying power to a 20 year-old monitor? For
*od's sake, that would have only have been 1987. A soft start using
a ferro-resonant isolation transformer or perhaps a continuous-duty
UPS would prevent transient or large inrush problems but I really
wouldn't
worry too much ;-)

Dust could be a problem around the EHT.

How do I know this?

I know this because just this last Saturday, I lost a 21" Iiyama
monitor that I paid about 650 GBP for about 6 years ago.

I'd known it'd been on its way out for months because sometimes
it would spark over inside and the picture would change to a bright
vertical line in the centre. I assumed it was caused by dust around
the EHT. I'd switch it off, wait for a few seconds, back on again, and
it'd usually be ok.

Of course this sparking chars the dust and leaves conductive carbon
around the EHT area.

On Saturday morning, what I knew was gonna happen happened. I
switched it on, and there was a *poooufff* - not that loud - but
unlike anything I'd heard it do before.

Lights out - forever.




Dust didn't do that, a cracked solder joint in the horizontal deflection
area did. The obvious clue is the lack of deflection when it acted up. 5
minutes with a soldering iron *before* the HOT and possibly other components
blew would have saved your monitor.