just blew up my 17" monitor
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Mon Nov 10 21:50:24 UTC 2003
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On Monday 10 November 2003 21:37, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The raw circuitry in the monitor contains a number of coils to make
> magnetic fields and transformers and such. When you put a fixed voltage
This seems quite credible, thanks for your explanation.
> If this seems cruel and a poor design, consider that your TV set is made
> to work just this way, and you can still make the black smoke come out of
With all the silicon in a modern TV this is not literally true for recent TVs:
for example mine is a 100Hz job where the signals that drive the display are
logically and temporally divorced from the incoming video data: good luck
blowing that up with a Modeline Of Death. Hopefully it would no longer be
true for 50Hz modern sets as a safety feature too.
> Old monitors in a multisync age probably should be discarded. A friend
> of mine lost his house due to a monitor catching fire.
Was it due to HSYNC troubles though? I don't suppose he cared either way.
- -Andy
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