[rescue] What to do about fuzzy screens?

joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 2 10:04:24 CDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:24:45AM -0400, James Fogg wrote:
> Once upon a time in a land far away, a young lad was carrying a color TV (sans
> cabinet) out of the local junkyard. He had planned to scavange it for parts.
> All of a sudden he felt something akin to a good punch in the jaw. He awoke
> some time later. It was dark and raining. His jaw hurt. There was a recently
> broken TV chassis scattered on the ground.
> 
> Some time later he leaned about the capacitive storage of CRT's, the
> many thousands of volts present in the envelope and the tendency for voltage to
> seek ground. He remembered his day in the junkyard and wondered.
> 
> I still sweat the details around CRT's.

I don't.  I just plain refuse to work on them.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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