just blew up my 17" monitor

[Andy Green]

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On Monday 10 November 2003 08:24, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Would you be willing to subject your CRT to an experimental video
> driver?  I can whip up a video driver guaranteed to let the smoke
> out of your monitor for proof of concept, 

Thanks for the offer :-)  but explaining the mechanism would be a lot more 
useful... what exactly gets hot and why?  Generally if things are asked to 
operate outside their bandwidth the signal attenuates towards nothing.  It 
would be a badly designed circuit that reacted to this by getting hot and 
letting out the magic smoke.

>assuming your monitor has no built in protection. 

What is not being protected in this instance, and do any recent monitors lack 
this protection?  This is what I doubt.

The only CRT I have left is an old Iiyama which definitely tells me if things 
are too much for its creaking old bones... and has all its magic smoke 
intact.

- -Andy
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