[SunRescue] Monitor's Are Deadly!!! If one is foolish.

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BSD Bob [mailto:bobkey at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 3:32 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Monitor's Are Deadly!!! If one is foolish.
> 
> 
> > Does anyone Actually know how to cool down a monitor... 
> releive it of its
> > charge...
> > 
> > And I don't wanna put a screw driver in bettween the cap 
> leads. thats the
> > last thing I wanna do???
> 
> Special grounding straps and probes are sometimes used.  That extreme
> should not usually be necessary.  I do use them for discharging
> capacitors in 500-5000 volt radio gear, though..... just in case.
> 
> Most monitors will lose their charge if given some time powered off.
> Most of what I read in the tech manuals suggests a few minutes is all
> that is required.  I generally give them 1 hour before 
> opening them up.
> If I get scared, I let them sit overnight.
> 
> That is not much of an answer, but is what I do, and I am still alive.

Ye be braver than I am.  I usually discharge the caps, even after I've had
them sit for a while, almost always at least over night.  But I try not to
do that too often, I don't know enough of what I'm doing.

> Anyone know offhand what keeps blowing in the old sun 
> monitors?  I have
> gone through a dozen in the last couple of years of the old 
> mono and color
> things used on the sun3 gear.  Most of what I run across in 
> Moo U surplus
> is dead, or fading fast.  DEC monitors are horrid.  Sun 
> monitors second
> most horrid.  Oddly, peecee things seem to last forever.....(:+{{.....

Strange...  I've been REALLY pleased with the trinitron based monitors that
I have, Sony generally puts good components with those tubes.  I've got
PeeCee monitors (the cheap ones) dying on me all the time at the office.  I
don't have a lot of Sun monitors, but the 1962B that I'm using still looks
pretty good.  The other one, which is semi-dead, has a bad horisontal circut
someplace, that I've not yet taken time to try to track down.
	Greg