OT: Free Broken Monitor...
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
Sat Dec 6 01:14:14 CST 2003
Rusty wrote:
> Uh-oh, not the "magic blue smoke"! I'm not a CRT tech, but maybe a
> raster scan circuit? (sounds impressive at any rate) I'll bet Mr.
> Attaway might know...
It's almost always the transistor driving the horizontal flyback. These
parts are typically underrated in lower-end monitors/TV's (like the
drive transistors in most low-cost power supplies), and fail early due
to the stress.
...or it could just be you ran out of floobydust. :)
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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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