On Nov 8, 9:28 pm, "Fleetie" wrote:
"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.
Martin - I'm not bitter, Sassnfrassnsonofabitchstoopiddog****goddamnmofo... .
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that just shows why you shouldn't nurse intermittent faults like that
along. by the way this is nothing to do with dust, it is a bad solder
joint. In carrying on using it you have stressed the scan circuits and
finally they gave up the ghost..... A waste of a good repairable
monitor. hope that serves as a lesson to you....
-B