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Star Wars - fully working!
orion:
Well I have learned that monitors can certainly bite you pretty hard when your poking around with them and don't know what your doing. I honestly don't know what the odds are that you can get electrocuted, but I do know that I once managed to get such a nice zap that it singed some of my arm hair off. The smell of ozone and burnt hair... lovely. I also learned not to adjust horizontal width coils with standard allen wrenches. The main thing I learned is to ASK YOU GUYS FIRST before I go playing around willy nilley with these things, cause at the very least, getting shocked can hurt like hell! My thought is to better be safe than sorry and to just discharge the damn thing before messing with it, even if you know what you are doing.
Level42:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 07, 2009, 05:25:49 pm ---Here are the instructions in the Star Wars manual on removing the monitor:
Seems like the standard procedure you would use on a raster monitor. I thought this wasn't recommended for vector monitors?
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I don't know this from experience so be warned, but I can't understand why discharging a vector would be any different then raster. You short (via resistors or not) the tube and nothing else is involved.
At least, that's theory.
Also interesting to read:
"The video display contains a circuit for discharging the CRT high voltage to ground when power is removed." And that's normally the case, unless it fails. But in this world of claims and lawsuits, no-one is taking chances.... :D
Spyridon:
I just need to find enough time to sit down and work on this.
I will fix it!!!!!
orion:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 08, 2009, 08:20:45 am ---I just need to find enough time to sit down and work on this.
I will fix it!!!!!
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How many machines are you working on right now BTW? Didn't you just score quite a few more?
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 03, 2009, 10:51:37 am ---Your arms must be longer than they appear... I certainly can't hold a mirror in front of a monitor and get my arm around the side of the cab with enough line of sight to safely adjust a monitor. I don't see any mention that he has pulled the thing out of the cab.
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Yeah cause theres no way he could sit the mirror on a table or prop it up on something.......
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