OT: Free Broken Monitor...

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Rusty wrote:
> Uh-oh, not the "magic blue smoke"! I'm not a CRT tech, but maybe a
> raster scan circuit? (sounds impressive at any rate) I'll bet Mr.
> Attaway might know...

It's almost always the transistor driving the horizontal flyback.  These 
parts are typically underrated in lower-end monitors/TV's (like the 
drive transistors in most low-cost power supplies), and fail early due 
to the stress.

...or it could just be you ran out of floobydust.  :)

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Charles Steinkuehler
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