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Dudes:
If I suddenly stoip posting you'll know I've been fried.
As a 4 year old kid I didn't believe what I was told about electricity and I made a 'daisy chain' out of all the cutlery in the draw and stuck the last fork in the wall outlet, turned it on, then I went and touched the other end.
They were right.
rev
I was maybe seven or eight when I watched my dad light one monitor up in flames when he was disassembling it. There were about a dozen total and on one he just got 'lucky'. Fortunately we still have him, but the monitor couldn't be saved.
Personally I would try to fix it myself, too. Shadow1 is right about the rubber cap; however, the daring could ground the tube to the case and discharge the CRT.
You'll probably have to be comfortable with a soldering iron to get a fuse in and out of there. Look around the boards near the PS to look for singeing. If other components went, too, then all is lost.
What a cheery soul! I think I'll go in head first.
Hey Reverend. I noticed you haven't posted anything since Wednesday. I hope we can get back to sending posts without having to send you a get-well card. It will be nice to know how things turned out.
Professor Dude!
Nice to know I'm missed - or were you just trying to find out if I was dead?
I've been temporarily scared off by the horror stories about dismantling a monitor, mine probably has a boxing glove on a spring inside it too.
I don't want to be discovered by aliens in 100 years with my fried finger still stuck in the faraday cage - like that dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dyke.
(Moderators - by 'dyke' I mean a water retaining wall)
I'll get dressed up in a wet suit and stand on someone I don't like before I have a shot at it - the monitor that is.
rev
LOL this has been a most amusing thread.Quote:
Originally posted by Reverend
Professor Dude!
Nice to know I'm missed - or were you just trying to find out if I was dead?
I've been temporarily scared off by the horror stories about dismantling a monitor, mine probably has a boxing glove on a spring inside it too.
I don't want to be discovered by aliens in 100 years with my fried finger still stuck in the faraday cage - like that dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dyke.
(Moderators - by 'dyke' I mean a water retaining wall)
I'll get dressed up in a wet suit and stand on someone I don't like before I have a shot at it - the monitor that is.
rev
Reminds me of the time I decided to re-wire a light switch........at night time so didn't turn power off or I wouldn't have been able to see.
Removed screws and pulled out from the wall - was moving wires and accidentally touched the wrong two with my fingers.
Hmm that tingling feeling only has to be felt for a few seconds before sensibility kick in.
Needless to say I'm not an electrician for my job.
Reverend, dont forget to wear your marigolds [washing gloves]and connect yourself to the nearest lightning rod ...........OH! and have an extingusher close to hand just in case ;)
Hope it all works out for you after all this input :)
Never mind you live and learn,it could have been worse you could have been using the light to see what you were doing :)Quote:
accidentally touched the wrong two with my fingers.
Dudes:
An update. I found out that there is a fuse in this type of monitor from the KDS website, I bought the fuse for a dollar and put it in.
My monitor works again.
There was nothing to it, no Faraday, no Rosenbaums, no head of a man in his late 50's nothing. Not a suasage.
rev
The lord must have been smiling on you reverend.
Dude:
Yeah. I did dress up as suggested though, nothing orthopedic (and nothing tacky) just a wet suit, the rubber mat from car and the marigolds.
I was hoping the Jehovah's witnesses would call while I was thus attired - I felt sure it would be the last time they visited.
I wrote a will and let the dog out to fend for himself in case I lit up.
What's black and hangs from the ceiling? - a polish electrician.
This screen seems extremely large after the 14" I put up while I was down - 'just until I wear glasses'
rev
So how do I discharge a capacitor?
I always used a jumper and ground that cap.
I've took one out of a microwave before. So what is the proper procedure?
Well, that'll do it, but you can make some capacitors go bang doing that, as well as producing a spectacular spark :D The best way is to put a fairly high value resistor in series with the grounding lead and let the capacitor discharge at a more reasonable rate.
Dudes:
Don't worry about any of that!
Dress up!
rev
Hi,Great another mystery solved, we thought it was a UFO but NO, it was the Reverend in his wet suit standing on a rubber mat, fully charged and blazing across the night sky!:)
That was Faraday and the Rosenbaums!