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The Monitor FAQ
menace:
Taken from the sci.electronics.repair FAQ :
Note that due to the additive color scheme used in all emissive color displays like CRT or flat panel TV sets and video monitors, a single missing primary color (red, green, or blue) will result in the following appearance (for a white screen):
Missing Color Appearance
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Red Cyan (blue-green)
Green Magenta (reddish-purple)
Blue Yellow
This may best be observed with a test pattern a color on-screen display for which you recall the proper colors.
[I'm posting this here both as information and as a sticky note because I always forget :)) By the way the sci.electronics.repair FAQ can be found at:
http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/sam
AlanS17:
I'd also like to add something...
For anybody mucking around on their monitor chassis, hopefully you know this already, but those barrel looking things standing up are capacitors. They're plastic coated around the sides and usually have metal showing on the top. Though it's not going to happen every time, touching that metal can give you a good zap - especially if you're hot and sweaty from digging around inside an arcade machine. It's those big ones near the power leads that have gotten me before. You'll see the same stuff if you pop open a power supply.
alundra:
good faq..this should be sticky!!
Mario:
This needs to be in the FAQ.
Can I rotate a computer monitor?
Mario
USSEnterprise:
I would think that cleaning out the monitor should require a discharge too. If you hit the wrong wire or component, you could get a nasty shock